Americanism

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Etymology

American +‎ -ism

Noun

Americanism (countable and uncountable; plural Americanisms)

1. A custom peculiar to the United States or the Americans.
2. A word, phrase or linguistic feature originating from or specific to American language usage.

   However, the -ize spelling is now rarely used in the UK in the mass media and newspapers, and is hence often incorrectly regarded as an Americanism.

3. A preference to the United States and the ideas it represents.

Antonyms

• (word specific to American usage): Briticism
• (preference for the U.S.): anti-Americanism

Synonyms

• Usonianism

Related terms

• Americanist

Translations

custom

• Finnish: amerikanismi (fi)

• Malay: amerikanisme (ms)

linguistic feature

• Dutch: amerikanisme n
• Finnish: amerikanismi (fi)
• French: américanisme (fr)
• German: Amerikanismus (de) m
• Korean: 미어 (ko) (mieo)

• Latvian: amerikānisms (lv)
• Russian: американизм (ru) (amerikanízm) m
• Serbo-Croatian: amerikanizam (sh) m
• Spanish: americanismo (es) m
• Swedish: amerikanism (sv) c

preference

• Finnish: amerikkalaismielisyys
• French: américanisme (fr)

• Swedish: amerikanism (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Latin: americanismus

Anagrams

• minicameras