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noun
1.
a custom, trait, or thing peculiar to the United States of America or its citizens.
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3.
devotion to or preference for the U.S. and its institutions.
4.
anything, as a custom or word, peculiar to America.
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Americanism
1781, in ref. to words or phrases distinct from British use, coined by John Witherspoon (17231794), president of Princeton College, from adj. form of America (q.v.) + -ism. (American English "English language as spoken in the United States" is
EXPAND first recorded 1806, in Webster.) Americanism in the patriotic sense "attachment to the U.S." is attested from 1797, first found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson
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