american
IPA: ʌmˈɛrʌkʌn
Root Word: American
noun
- Any inhabitant of the Americas.
- (historical) A citizen or inhabitant of British North America.
- (archaic) Synonym of American Indian or Native American, an indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.
- (uncountable, US printing, rare, dated) A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.
- A citizen or inhabitant of the United States of America.
- (informal, humorous, colloquial) The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America.
- (clipping of) American cheese.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.
- (uncommon) Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
- (historical) Of, from, or pertaining to British North America.
- (archaic) Synonym of American Indian and Native American, of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
- (finance, of an option, not comparable) Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
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Examples of "american" in Sentences
- The American worker and american companies could a much better job than the devastating greed of wall street.
- American politicians like McCain are either very smart or the american voter is dumber than he can ever imagine.
- Obama = American jobs for american people, the economy, proper foreign policy, social security, trade, social healing etc
- Reply: Opening American Politics to Third Parties Would be ... the best thing that could happen to the american political system.
- American voters was HUGE. in line next to me were a couple 30ish african american women who had never voted before and really knew very little about politics.
- North American English Pronunciation EnglishMeeting.com pronunciation video with Dave Sconda accent american accent education educator english english accent english as a second language english education english educator english forum…
- But my feeling has been if someone is going to play Captain America they should be American. baconbits yeah, i really liked him in Star Trek. my friends were crying after the intro. i also agree on Cap. only an american should play him.
- In fact, you have references to: 1. Berlin, Europe, foreign countries and whatever: that means "no interference in interior affairs" 2. American star system, not so popular among american people 3. Obama's quote about "no offshore drilling", a very important point for whom lives in midwest and needs oil for living.
- March 1, 2008 at 8:25 pm what surprises me is how stupid the two leading democrats are. they havent even been nominated yet , let alone elected and have made statements on foeeign affairs that has totally pissed off an entire country and it would appear just like most American politicians are ill-educated on american interests.
- Senator McCain not only falsely leads the American public about how violent Iraq has become under the policies he has whole hearted supported in his voting record since he voted for the authorization to attack Iraq based on deceitful handpicked intelligence, he also is not forthcoming to the american public in his present judgement.
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