Americanize

See also: americanize

English

Alternative forms

• Americanise

Etymology

American +‎ -ize; first attested in 1797.

Pronunciation

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Verb

Americanize (third-person singular simple present Americanizes, present participle Americanizing, simple past and past participle Americanized)

1. (US, Canada) To make American, as to custom, culture, or style of the United States of America.
2. (US, Canada) To localize a medium for sale or use in the United States.

Related terms

• Americanization
• Americanism

Translations

to make American

• Arabic: أَمْرَكَ‏‎ (ʾamraka)
• Catalan: americanitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美國化, 美国化 (měiguóhuà), 美化 (zh) (měihuà), 美語用法, 美语用法 (Měiyǔ yòngfǎ) (linguistically)

• Dutch: amerikaniseren
• Finnish: amerikkalaistaa
• French: américaniser (fr)
• German: amerikanisieren
• Italian: americanizzare

• Japanese: アメリカ風にする (Amerika-fū ni suru), アメリカナイズする (amerikanaizu suru)
• Malay: amerikakan
• Polish: amerykanizować (pl)
• Portuguese: americanizar (pt)
• Russian: американизи́ровать (ru) impf, pf (amerikanizírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: amerikanizirati (sh)
• Spanish: americanizar (es)
• Swedish: amerikanisera (sv)
• Vietnamese: Mỹ hóa