Manhattanite

English

From Manhattan +‎ -ite.

Manhattanite (not comparable)

Of, or from, Manhattan.
- 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
  This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.

Manhattanite (plural Manhattanites)

Someone from Manhattan.
- 1995, Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys, Ch.1, at p.37:
  Walter Gaskell was a tall, silver-haired Manhattanite with a narrow waist and broad shoulders, and his blue eyes had the luminous, emptied-out look of a reformed alcoholic's.
- 2012 May 24, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: Vampire's Kiss”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:
  The most likely explanation is that Cage imagined Peter as a fop of the first order, the type of ivory-tower Manhattanite whose exalted sense of privilege naturally leads to a hilariously affected manner of speech.