US American
See also: U.S. American
English
Alternative forms
Noun
US American (plural US Americans)
- (rare) An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America, as opposed to others who might be called Americans.
- 2004, Urs Eggli & Leonard E. Newton, Etymological dictionary of succulent plant names, page 30:
- [Species] bradyi [named] For Major L. G. Brady (fl. 1960), US-American who discovered the taxon
- 2004, Gwyneth Olofsson, When in Rome or Rio or Riyadh—: cultural Q&As for successful business behavior around the world, page 56:
- I've heard a Canadian say that citizens of the U.S. should really be called USians, but somehow I don't think it will catch on. Instead, if you talk about U.S. Americans, Canadians, Brazilians, and so on, nobody should be offended.
- 2005, Pauline T. Newton, Transcultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature, page 139:
- To Mai, Aunt Mary is another role model, one who is a native-born U.S. American who knows the country's tricks
- 2007, Miss South Carolina in Miss Teen USA
- I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education, such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US - or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.
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Translations
inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America
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