Brother Jonathan

American  

noun

British Archaic.

1. a male native or resident of the United States.

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Example Sentences

National symbols aren’t something we can formally retire; they’re deep in the culture, and can only fade away, like Brother Jonathan or Columbia, as people’s values change.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022

But there was another figure resembling Uncle Sam called Brother Jonathan who emerged earlier.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021

Brother Jonathan and Drew Scott from “Property Brothers” are back with new episodes of their spinoff series.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2016

He replaced Brother Jonathan, a New Englander, as an American icon in the early 19th century after an article circulated in the May 12, 1830, New York Gazette.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2015

It was in this spirit that he recently explained, in his own way, the old distinctions of Meum and Tuum to Brother Jonathan, when the latter was lamentably inclined to forget them.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by