Thesaurus: Sooner
a native or resident of Oklahoma
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- n. a native or resident of Oklahoma
- adv. comparatives of ‘soon’ or ‘early’
- adv. more readily or willingly
- In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage.
- In the western United States, one who settles on governmentland before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain theprior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land isopened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely oranticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage.
- r. comparatives of `soon' or `early'