American
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From America + -n, or via Modified Latin Americanus ((deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin americanus) with the same etymology.
Pronunciation
Noun
American (plural Americans)
- Originally, a native or inhabitant of the British North American colonies of European descent; now, a person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United States of America. [from 17th c.]
- 2008, Chris Moss, The Guardian, 9 Augist 2008:
- They say Americans don't walk. Well, they do in the Navajo Nation - because even if northern Arizona has gigabytes of photogenic vistas, getting out of the car is the only way to get your boots covered in desert dust and soak up the silence.
- 2008, Chris Moss, The Guardian, 9 Augist 2008:
- An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas; a Native American or an American Indian (now chiefly with qualifying word). [from 16th c.]
- 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 56.1:
- The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
- 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘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’.
- 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 56.1:
- An inhabitant of the Americas. More often this is specified as either North American, Central American or South American.
- Every American's origin is, historically speaking, by immigration, if scientific speculation that points to a human origin in Africa and a migration to the New World from Eurasia turns out to be correct.
- American English.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 490:
- "Where do you keep your cash, bub?" asked Idris hoarsely. His American was better than Hassan's English.
- (uncountable, US printing, rare, dated) A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.
Synonyms
- (person from the USA): US-American
- (person from America): Western Hemispherian, New Worlder, United Statesian
Hyponyms
Translations
inhabitant of the Americas
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person born in, or a citizen of, the U.S.
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1-point type
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Proper noun
American
- The English language as spoken in the U.S.; American English.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 756:
- We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us in American.
- 1998, Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna, Rush Hour, New Line Cinema:
- JAMES CARTER: Mr. Rice-a-Roni; don't even speak American.
- 2014, David Ayer, Fury, Columbia Pictures:
- DON COLLIER: This is an American tank; we talk American.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 756:
Translations
American English — see also American English
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Adjective
American (comparative more American, superlative most American)
- Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
- Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people or its culture.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
- 2019 April 14, Jennifer Welsh Zeiter in "Putting American Flags on Police Cars Sparks Backlash in Laguna Beach", Los Angeles Times:
- ...they cannot see through their current biases to realize that a police vehicle with the American flag is the ultimate American expression.
- He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
- Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
- (finance) (of an option, not comparable) Can be exercised on any date between the issue date and the expiry date.
- 2009, John C. Hull, Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page 182:
- All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
- 2009, Shih-Feng Huang and Meihui Guo, Applied Quantitative Finance (Second Edition), Springer, page 295:
- Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
- 2010, Johnathan Mun, Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons:
- Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option is American style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.
- 2009, John C. Hull, Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page 182:
Usage notes
Sometimes (usually outside of the U.S.) used pejoratively (see also anti-Americanism).
Synonyms
- (nationality or ethnicity): Western Hemispherian, New Worlder
- (US American): United Statesian, USAian, Usanian, Usonian, US American, US-ian, Usonan; (in Cockney rhyming slang) Septic
Coordinate terms
Translations
of or pertaining to the Americas
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of or pertaining to a native or citizen of the Americas
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of or pertaining to the U.S. or its culture
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of or pertaining to a native or citizen of the U.S.
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of or pertaining to American (the language), American English
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Derived terms
Terms derived from American (all parts of speech)
Terms derived from American (substantive)
Terms derived from American (adjective)
- American Airlines
- American aloe
- American as apple pie
- American ash
- American basswood
- American beaver
- American bison
- American Black English
- American Bobtail
- American Bulldog
- American chameleon
- American cheese
- American Civil War
- American cockroach
- American crocodile
- American Curl
- American darter
- American dream, American Dream
- American dun-bar
- American eagle
- American elm
- American English
- American Falls
- American football
- American Fork
- American foxhound
- American fries
- American golden plover
- American goldfinch
- American gothic
- American hornbeam
- American Indian
- American jay
- American kestrel
- American Keuda
- American laurel
- American League
- American Legion
- Americanly
- Americanness
- American night heron
- American option
- American painted lady
- American pit bull terrier
- American plan
- American Revised Version
- American Revolution
- American Revolutionary War
- American Saddlebred
- American saddle horse
- American Samoa
- American share
- American shorthair, American Shorthair
- American Sign Language
- American snakebird
- American Spanish
- American Staffordshire terrier
- American Standard Version
- American style option
- American Thanksgiving
- American War of Independence
- American water spaniel
- American wigeon
- American wire gauge
- American Wirehair
- Interamerican
- Latin-American Spanish
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people
- Pan-American
- un-American
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