What is another word for dubliner?

Pronunciation: [dˈʌbla͡ɪnə] (IPA)

Dubliner is a term commonly used to refer to a person who is from Dublin, the capital city of Ireland. However, there are many synonyms that can be used to refer to a Dubliner. These include Dub, Dubs, Jackeen, and Molly Malone. Dub is a shortened term for a Dubliner while the term Dubs is commonly used to describe the people of Dublin collectively. Jackeen is a term that is sometimes used derogatorily to describe people from Dublin, while Molly Malone is a popular folk character and song, who is often used as a symbol of Dublin. These synonyms can be useful when wanting to avoid repetition of the same word in writing or conversation.

Synonyms for Dubliner:

What are the hypernyms for Dubliner?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    dubliner, Irish Person, Irishman/Irishwoman, person from Dublin, resident of Dublin.

What are the hyponyms for Dubliner?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the holonyms for Dubliner?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

Usage examples for Dubliner

And, what though murdered and betrayed, bewept by all frail tender hearts for, Dane or dubliner, sorrow for the dead is the only husband from whom they refuse to be divorced.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
It is not the tortuous, inimical, Aristotlian-minded Dublin of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist"-it is the Dublin of the simple-hearted dubliner: Dublin with its great grey clouds and its poising sea-birds, with its hills and its bay, with its streets that everyone would avoid and with its other streets that everyone promenades; with its greens and its park and its river-walks-Dublin, always friendly.
"Mary, Mary"
James Stephens Commentator: Padraic Colum
Sometimes in these latter days I imagine such things are changed, though I would like to think it is only an old man's fancy, as it was in the case of the dear old dubliner, who in his time had been a beaux and had reached his eightieth year.
"Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland"
Joseph Tatlow

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