Washingtonian: Definition and part of speech

Washingtonian

  1. n. A member of the Washingtonian Society.
  2. a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
  3. a. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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