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american-indian |
american-indian language |
americana |
americanisation |
americanise |
americanism
| americanization
| americanize
| americium
| americus vespucius
| amerigo vespucci
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americanism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun americanism has 3 senses
- americanism(n = noun.attribute) - loyalty to the United States and its institutions; is a kind of nationalism, patriotism
- americanism(n = noun.communication) - an expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans; is a kind of expression, formulation
- americanism(n = noun.act) - a custom that is peculiar to the United States or its citizens; is a kind of custom, usage, usance
CIDE DICTIONARY
americanism, n.
- Attachment to the United States. [1913 Webster]
- A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. [1913 Webster]
- A word or phrase peculiar to the United States. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
americanism, n.
1 a a word, sense, or phrase peculiar to or originating from the United States. b a thing or feature characteristic of or peculiar to the United States.
2 attachment to or sympathy for the United States.
1 a a word, sense, or phrase peculiar to or originating from the United States. b a thing or feature characteristic of or peculiar to the United States.
2 attachment to or sympathy for the United States.
THESAURUS
americanism
Anglicism, Briticism, Frenchism, Gallicism, Hibernicism, Irishism, Latinism, Scotticism, Yankeeism, chauvinism, flag waving, jingoism, love of country, nationalism, nationality, overpatriotism, patriotics, patriotism, ultranationalismROGET THESAURUS
americanism
Neologism
N neology, neologism, newfangled expression, nonce expression, back-formation, caconym, barbarism, archaism, black letter, monkish Latin, corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis, pun, paranomasia, play upon words, word play, double- entendre, palindrome, paragram, anagram, clinch, abuse of language, abuse of terms, dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois, provincialism, regionalism, localism, broken English, lingua franca, Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism, Americanism, Gypsy lingo, Romany, pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English, Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir, dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish, confusion of tongues, Babel, babu English, chi-chi, figure of speech, byword, colloquialism, informal speech, informal language, substandard language, vernacular, vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity, jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang, pseudology, pseudonym, Mr, So-and-so, wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name, thingummy, thingumbob, je ne sais quoi, neologist, coiner of words, neologic, neological, archaic, obsolete, colloquial, Anglice.
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