sb. and a. Also 7 Smyrneot. [f. SMYRNA + -(I)OTE.]
A. sb. An inhabitant or native of Smyrna, esp. in modern times. (Cf. SMYRNÆAN sb.)
1670. Covel, in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.), 133. The inhabitants of Smyrna are called Smyrniotes.
a. 1700. Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 292. That Smyrneots may thy glorious Godhead own.
1849. New Monthly Mag., Oct., 162. The best lawyers, if not Germans, are Ionians or Smyrniotes.
1897. Edin. Rev., Jan., 111. A Smyrniote of low extraction.
B. adj. Smyrnæan.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 114. The multitude of Smyrniote and Alexandrian merchants.
1881. Athenæum, 2 July, 12/3. The English, French, Italians form the rest of the Smyrniote community.