Americanism

English

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.

Synonyms

• (custom; preference): Usonianism
• (word or phrase): Yankeeism

Antonyms

• (preference for the U.S.): anti-Americanism

Related terms

• Americanist

Coordinate terms

• (dialectisms) dialectism; Americanism (Yankeeism, Yankism), Australianism, Britishism (anglicism, Briticism), Canadianism, Indianism, Irishism, Scotticism, southernism, New Zealandism

Translations

custom

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美国主义

• Esperanto: usonismo
• Finnish: amerikanismi (fi)
• French: américanisme (fr) m
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• Malay: amerikanisme
• Polish: amerykanizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: americanismo (pt) m
• Russian: американи́зм (ru) m (amerikanízm)

linguistic feature

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美語／美语 (zh) (Měiyǔ), 美语 (zh) (měiyǔ)

• Czech: amerikanismus (cs) m
• Dutch: amerikanisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: amerikanisme (eo) c
• Finnish: amerikanismi (fi)
• French: américanisme (fr)
• German: Amerikanismus (de) m
• Hungarian: amerikanizmus (hu)
• Japanese: 米語 (ja) (べいご, beigo)
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• Korean: 미어 (ko) (mieo)
• Latvian: amerikānisms
• Polish: amerykanizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: americanismo (pt) m
• Russian: американи́зм (ru) m (amerikanízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: amerikanizam (sh) m
• Spanish: americanismo (es) m, angloamericanismo (es) m
• Swedish: amerikanism (sv) c

preference

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美国主义

• Finnish: amerikkalaismielisyys
• French: américanisme (fr)
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• Hungarian: amerikanizmus (hu)
• Russian: американи́зм (ru) m (amerikanízm)
• Swedish: amerikanism (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} americanismus
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