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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floridian \Floridian\ prop. n. a resident of Florida.
Wikipedia
Floridian may refer to:
- Floridian, the demonym for a person from Florida
- Floridian (Amtrak), an Amtrak route that ran from Chicago to Miami and St. Petersburg, Florida
- Miami Floridians, a professional basketball franchise in the original American Basketball Association
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, a United States Navy troop transport in commission in 1919
The Floridian was a train operated by Amtrak from 1971 to 1979 that ran from Chicago to Miami and St. Petersburg, Florida. Its route mainly followed that of several former Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) passenger trains, including the Humming Bird (Cincinnati—Louisville—New Orleans). Originating in Chicago, the train served Lafayette and Bloomington, Indiana; Louisville and Bowling Green, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Decatur, Birmingham, Montgomery and Dothan, Alabama; and Thomasville, Valdosta and Waycross, Georgia. At Jacksonville, Florida, the train split to serve the separate routes of St. Petersburg, Florida (via Orlando) and Miami (via Winter Haven. These two legs crossed each other near Lakeland, Florida.
The Floridian was notorious for lackluster on-time performance, owing to the poor condition of equipment inherited from the private railroads, and equally poor track conditions. The train used the lines of L&N (in Indiana, over the former Monon Railroad, which merged into the L&N shortly before the formation of Amtrak), and Seaboard Coast Line. All are now part of CSX Transportation; some parts of the former route have since been abandoned by CSX.
Amtrak discontinued the Floridian in October 1979, leaving Louisville and Nashville without passenger train service, two of the largest such cities in the nation to have this distinction. (Louisville briefly regained Amtrak service with the Kentucky Cardinal, which operated 1999-2003).
Usage examples of "floridian".
His accent was a mixture of Brooklynese and Italian, his attire strictly Floridian retiree.
This spring, about 5,500 indigent Floridians will be purposely shut out of a program that offers job skills and child-care benefits instead of straight welfare.
By now, he conjectured, all the National Guard contingents which had been ordered to prevent a northward exodus of plague-carrying Floridians must have been pulled back to the border.
Floridian that went after batteries the way squirrels went after hard drives.
To get around the heavy, crazy traffic at the Golden Glades exchange, which every wise Floridian avoided, if possible, Hoke left the Sunshine Parkway at the Holly- wood exit and picked up I-95 for the rest of the way into the city.
It came to serious money, too, enough to bribe the Floridian authorities who controlled the launch pads at the Cape, to hire pilots, to fight the Feds' lawyers through the courts until, reluctantly, they did give in and provide a launch vehicle for her.
It came to serious money, too, enough to bribe the Floridian authorities who controlled the launch pads at the Cape, to hire pilots, to fight the Feds’.
The Floridians hit back by pointing to the famous Los Angeles smogs, then the Californians say, with careful anxiety, "Isn’t it about time you had another hurricane?
Floridians, until recently, did not have to provide their Social Security number when registering.
On March 2nd, the wire services carried a story date-lined Weeki Wachee Springs that told of a Floridian who bad had his picture taken by an outer-spaceman.