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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carolinian \Car`o*lin"i*an\, n. A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.
Wikipedia
Carolinian may refer to:
- Something from or related to the Caroline Islands, an archipelago of tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean
- Carolinian language, an Austronesian language spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean
- Carolinian people, an Austronesian ethnic group which originates from the Caroline Islands
- Something or someone from, or related to, The Carolinas, a region in the United States
- Carolinian forest, a life zone in eastern North America
- Carolinian (train), a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak in the eastern United States
- USS Carolinian (ID-1445), a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
- M/S Carolinian, the first all- welded merchant ship in the world, completed 1930.
- The Carolinian (also known as The Rattlesnake), a 1922 play by Rafael Sabatini and J. E. Harold Terry.
- The Carolinian, a 1924 novel by Rafael Sabatini based on the 1922 play
The Carolinian is a daily passenger train that runs between Charlotte, North Carolina and New York City. The train began operation in 1990 and is jointly funded and operated by Amtrak and the North Carolina Department of Transportation. A previous iteration operated between 1984-1985. Onboard services include coach, business class, and a cafe car. The train operates over the Northeast Corridor between New York and Washington, D.C. The train continues to Charlotte. Intermediate stops in North Carolina include Rocky Mount, Wilson, Selma, Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Burlington, Greensboro, High Point, Salisbury, and Kannapolis.
During fiscal year 2013, the Carolinian carried over 317,550 passengers, a 3.6% increase over FY2012 (306,419 passengers) and a 3.4% increase over FY2011 (307,213 passengers). The line had a total revenue of $19,841,847 during FY2013, an increase of 6.4% over FY2012.
This route (in addition to its sister train, the Piedmont) is notable because it allows walk-up checked bicycle transportation at its station stops in North Carolina.
Usage examples of "carolinian".
He wanted to keep the North Carolinian well informed, just as Hudson had promised to keep Starbuck apprised of any threats on his southern flank.
Since the South Carolinian commander had waited so long, thousands of his troops were forced to rush in all directions, striking their tents and loading wagons served by nervous teamsters.
He declared that he suspected McDowell would follow closely behind Bonham, as the South Carolinian pulled his brigade from Fairfax Court House.
One South Carolinian, whose own company happened to abut the camp of the Tigers, did not appreciate the close association.
Before a second fusillade from either side, strenuous efforts by both Wheat and the commander of the South Carolinian skirmishers prevented any more bloodshed.
Another South Carolinian tried to make sense of this experience in a letter to his wife.
He left Colonel Sloan, the South Carolinian, in charge and galloped to Bee and pleaded for support.
When he approached the battered men of the Fourth South Carolina, they cheered him, a fellow South Carolinian, mightily.
The South Carolinian should take his two remaining regiments across Bull Run and lead a joint assault with Longstreet against the Yankee left.
He was a lifelong North Carolinian, born in Mecklenburg County in 1928.
His intent, let us say, was to develop his children into good Southerners of the North Carolinian persuasion.
North Carolinian believes in niceness as both a practice and a veil, as an expression of Christianity and democratic values, and as a disguise.
North Carolinian wears khaki pants the way other men wear fancy suits, as a badge of his identity.
North Carolinian propensity for modesty and sobriety accounted for the relative delicacy of the reporting.
Randolph had been the most highly recruited North Carolinian ever to have chosen Duke.