American

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  Any inhabitant of the Americas.
 * 2)  A citizen or inhabitant of.
 * 3)   or , an indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.
 * 4) * [ 2012,, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402:
 * Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American’. ]
 * 1)  A size of type smaller than, 1-point type.
 * 2)  A citizen or national of the United States of America.
 * 3) * 1852 July 5,, speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester, New York:
 * Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation... is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.
 * 1) * 1984 Aug. 11,, soundcheck for a :
 * My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever..
 * 1)  The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America.
 * 2) * Francis E. Clark, in:
 * 3)  American cheese.
 * 1)  The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America.
 * 2) * Francis E. Clark, in:
 * 3)  American cheese.
 * 1) * Francis E. Clark, in:
 * 2)  American cheese.
 * 1)  American cheese.
 * 1)  American cheese.
 * 1)  American cheese.
 * 1)  American cheese.
 * 1)  American cheese.
 * 1)  American cheese.

Usage notes

 * Within most English dialects, American now refers particularly to the people of the most populous English-speaking country in the Americas, the United States of America. Other senses now typically require qualifiers:, , etc. Some speakers maintain separate idiolects, however, including . Many Latin Americans also Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese's preference for using  to refer to the Americas generally, and  and  when refering to both the country and its inhabitants.
 * Usage of unqualified American as a language separate from or in place of, though once sincere, is now typically considered a sign of poor education or used to mock others' supposed ignorance, parochialism, or excessive nationalism.

Synonyms

 * ;,  ; , , , ,  ; see also Thesaurus:American

Hyponyms

 * See Thesaurus:North, South, & Native American

Translations

 * Albanian:, amerikane
 * Armenian: ամերիկացի
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: amerikano
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, americana
 * German: ,
 * Hawaiian: ʻAmelika
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, amerikanerinne
 * Nynorsk: amerikanar, amerikanarinne
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto: امريکايی, امريکايۍ
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganach
 * Sicilian:, miricana
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: Waamerika
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: Amerikahin, Amerikano
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: người Mỹ
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: Americaniad


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, banor i SHBA; amerikane, banore e SHBA
 * Arabic: أَمْرِيكِيّ, أَمْرِيكِيَّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: أمريكاني
 * Hijazi Arabic: أمريكي
 * Aragonese: estatounitense
 * Armenian: ամերիկացի, ամերիկուհի
 * Azerbaijani: amerikalı
 * Belarusian: амерыка́нец, амерыка́нка
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: америка́нец, америка́нка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Extremaduran: estauuniense
 * Farefare: Sʋlmi-pɛɛlga, Amerikanẽra, nasaara, amerika-nẽra, nasaara
 * Faroese: amerikanari
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ამერიკელი
 * German:,  ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian: ʻAmelika
 * Hebrew:, אָמֶרִיקָנִית
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: orang Amerika
 * Interlingua: statounitese
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: американдық, америкалық
 * Korean:, 미국 사람
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: американец,
 * Latin: Americanus
 * Latvian: amerikānis, amerikāniete
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: Американец, Американка
 * Malay: orang Amerika, orang US
 * Menominee: (kece-)mōhkomān
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: америк хүн
 * Nahuatl: Tlacetilīllahtohcāyōtēcatl
 * Navajo: ílį́įgo Wááshindoon Bikéyah biiʼ kééhojitʼíinii, Bilagáana
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, amerikanerinne, USA-amerikaner, USA-amerikanerinne
 * Nynorsk: amerikanar, amerikanarinne,, USA-amerikanarinne
 * Occitan: etatsunidenc,
 * Ojibwe: gichi-mookomaan
 * Ottawa: gchi-mookmaan
 * Pashto: امريکايی, امريکايۍ
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Potawatomi: kche-mokman
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Америка́нац, Амерѝка̄нка
 * Roman:, Amerìkānka
 * Sicilian:, miricana
 * Skolt Sami: a´mmrik
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: Američàn, Američánka
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: Amerikano
 * Tajik: ,
 * Taos: phonsáyna
 * Thai: ชาวอเมริกัน, คนอเมริกัน,
 * Tibetan: ཨ་རི
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: amerikaly
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: امریکن
 * Uyghur: ئامېرىكىلىق, ئامېرىكان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: người Mỹ, người Hoa Kỳ
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: Americanwr
 * Yiddish: אַמעריקאַנער


 * Dutch: achtste petit
 * German: Achtelpetit

Adjective

 * Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.
 * 1)  Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
 * 2)  Of, from, or pertaining to.
 * 3)   and , of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
 * 4)  Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
 * 1)  Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
 * 2)  Of, from, or pertaining to.
 * 3)   and , of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
 * 4)  Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
 * 1)   and , of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
 * 2)  Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.

Usage notes
See above.

Hyponyms

 * See Thesaurus:North, South, & Native American

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አሜሪካዊ
 * Arabic: أَمْرِيكِيّv
 * Egyptian Arabic: أمريكاني
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: amerikalı, amerika
 * Belarusian: амерыка́нскі
 * Bengali:, মার্কিনী
 * Bulgarian: америка́нски
 * Burmese: အမေရိကန်
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ameerika
 * Finnish:, , Yhdysvaltain , Amerikan
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ამერიკული
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: ameriken
 * Hawaiian: ʻAmelika, haole
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: Usana
 * Interlingua: statounitese
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, (more precisely)
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kazakh: американдық, америка
 * Khmer: អាមេរិក
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, америка
 * Latvian: amerikānisks, amerikāņu
 * Lithuanian: amerikietiškas, amerikiečių
 * Luxembourgish: amerikanesch
 * Macedonian: америка́нски
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian: америк
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: amerikansk
 * Pashto: امريکايی
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , estado-unidens
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: амѐричкӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Amerikahin, Amerikano
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: amerikaly, amerika
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: امریکی, امریکائی
 * Uzbek:, amerika
 * Vietnamese: (thuộc), (thuộc) ;
 * Volapük:, Lamerikänanik, Lamerikäna-Linglänapükik
 * Yiddish: אַמעריקאַניש


 * Amharic: አሜሪካዊ
 * Arabic: أَمْرِيكِيّ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: амерыка́нскі, амэрыка́нскі
 * Bulgarian: америка́нски
 * Burmese: အမေရိကန်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: amerika
 * Finnish: Amerikan ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: ʻAmelika
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 南北アメリカ
 * Khmer: អាមេរិក
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latvian: amerikānisks, amerikāņu
 * Macedonian: америка́нски
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: amerikansk
 * Pashto: امريکايی
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: амѐричкӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Amerikahin, Amerikano
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:


 * Hebrew: ,
 * Latin:
 * Romanian: