demonym


Also found in: Wikipedia.

dem·o·nym

 (dĕm′ə-nĭm′)
n.
A name, such as Swede or New Yorker, that denotes an inhabitant or native of a given place.

[Greek dēmos, people; see dā- in Indo-European roots + -onym.]

dem′o·nym′ic adj.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
demonym
References in periodicals archive ?
("I-Kiribati" is the demonym. It can be used as a noun or an adjective.
Some of the best journals have arisen out of a national professional association and bear that country's demonym; unfortunately, this may be seen as an indicator of insularity despite their authors and readership being global.
Now that I have employed the demonym Pole in an unproblematic and facile fashion, let me note that this type of undisciplined naming of groups and positions remains, alas, the pattern of the book.
BasketBox is an online store specializing in demonym apparel and gifts that are fun to wear and inspire conversation.
For example, it has been argued by Booij (1997a, 2010) that in Dutch the form of the female demonym is derived from the toponymic adjective:
[35] Harinder Pal, Mausam, "Demonyms and Compound Relational Nouns in Nominal Open IE," in Proc.