Zealander
(ˈziːləndə(r))
Forms: 6 Zelender, 7 Zelander, 7– Zealander.
[f. Zealand = Du. Zeeland + -er1.]
a. A native or inhabitant of Zealand, a province of the Netherlands.
| 1573 Bedingfield tr. Cardanus' Comf. ii. (1576) 21 Gulielmus a Zelender. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Pol. Touchstone (1674) 254 She doth..make more..War upon the Spaniards, than do the Hollanders and Zealanders. 1766 Compl. Farmer 5 H b/1 The Zealanders let their's [sc. madder] grow larger. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 485 Every merchant ship that cleared out from the Thames or the Severn would be manned by Zealanders and Hollanders and Frieslanders. |
b. A native or inhabitant of New Zealand; orig. and esp. a Maori.
| 1773 W. Bayly Jrnl. 12 Apr. in R. McNab Hist. Rec. N.Z. (1914) II. 207 The Zeelanders never eat greens of any kind. 1821 M. Edgeworth Let. 7 Dec. (1971) 288 Captain Thompson..went some years ago to New Zealand and when he was taking leave of the Zealanders one of their chiefs consented to accompany him to England. 1949 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 92 And persuaded an Aussie or Zealander or S. African To kneel with him in prayer. |
{astm} See also New Zealander.