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American

[ uh-mer-i-kuhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the United States of America or its inhabitants:

    an American citizen.

  2. of or relating to North or South America; of the Western Hemisphere:

    the American continents.

  3. of or relating to the Indigenous peoples of North and South America.


noun

  1. a citizen of the United States of America.
  2. a native or inhabitant of North or South America.
  3. an Indigenous person of North or South America.
  4. a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and no rear truck.

American

/ əˈmɛrɪkən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the United States of America, its inhabitants, or their form of English
  2. of or relating to the American continent


noun

  1. a native or citizen of the US
  2. a native or inhabitant of any country of North, Central, or South America
  3. the English language as spoken or written in the United States

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Other Words From

  • A·mer·i·can·ly adverb
  • A·mer·i·can·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of American1

First recorded in 1570–80; Americ(a) + -an

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Example Sentences

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?

The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.

Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.

Sadly, it appears the American press often doesn't need any outside help when it comes to censoring themselves.

We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.

We can readily see how this might have been, from numerous experiments made with both American and European varieties.

He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.

The difficulty of educating handlers of bills in distant places as to American credits.

But you are English, or you are American; and men of those countries never misunderstand a woman, even if she is in trouble.

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