Americana
English
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
- All things peculiar to the United States' culture and people, anything that is a symbol of American life.
- Hyponym: Californiana
- 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.
- (music) An amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles.
Synonyms
- (musical genre): alternative country, alt-country
Portuguese
Proper noun
Americana f
- A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -ana
- English 5-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɑːnə
- English terms with quotations
- en:Music
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Municipalities of São Paulo, Brazil
- pt:Places in São Paulo, Brazil
- pt:Places in Brazil