Yankee Definition

Yankee
noun Yankees

(Brit)
1. colloq
A person from the US.
(N Amer, especially US)
2. A person from New England or from any of the northern states of America.
3. communications.
In the NATO alphabet: the word used to denote the letter ‘Y'.

Etymology: 18c: perhaps from Dutch Jan Kees John Cheese, the nickname given by the New York Dutch to the British settlers in Connecticut.