CALIFORNIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Californian mean? 

• CALIFORNIAN (noun)
  The noun CALIFORNIAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or resident of California

  Familiarity information: CALIFORNIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• CALIFORNIAN (adjective)
  The adjective CALIFORNIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of California or its inhabitants

  Familiarity information: CALIFORNIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALIFORNIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or resident of California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Californian" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

Derivation:

Californian (of or relating to or characteristic of California or its inhabitants)

• CALIFORNIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of California or its inhabitants

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Californian beaches

Pertainym:

California (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

Derivation:

California (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

Californian (a native or resident of California)

 Context examples 

The suicide rate for the reference patients was the lowest amongst the studied groups, but still double the suicide rate among Californians overall.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

One of the larger rabbit breeds, the Californian has a rounded, medium-length body with a short coat that is white with black on the nose, ears, feet, legs, and tail.

(California Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)

It was sultry and oppressive, reminding me of what the old Californians term “earthquake weather.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The risk for death via unintentional injury (i.e., accidents) was also markedly elevated — 16 times higher for the deliberate self-harm group and 13 times higher for the ideation group than for demographically similar Californians.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

I overheard Henderson and another of the hunters, Standish, a Californian, talking about it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For those who presented with suicidal ideation, the suicide rate was approximately 31 times higher than among Californians overall.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

People who presented with suicidal ideation had suicide rates 31.4 times higher than those of demographically similar Californians in the year after discharge.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

A new study found that people who presented to California emergency departments with deliberate self-harm had a suicide rate in the year after their visit 56.8 times higher than those of demographically similar Californians.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

The researchers found that the probability of suicide in the first year after discharge from an emergency department was highest — almost 57 times that of demographically similar Californians overall — for people who had presented with deliberate self-harm.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)