American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
ipa: /əˈmɝ.ə.kən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əˈmɛɹ.ə.kən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əˈmɛɹ.kən/
Forms: form: more American
form: most American
form: Am.
form: Amer.
form: Americanian
form: Murican
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *amalą
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor.
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.?
Italian Amerigoder.
New Latin Americalbor.
English America
Middle English -n
English -n
English American
From America + -n. compare Latin amerī̆canus.
Senses: examples: text: He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
text: Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
text: Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Each new wave of immigration helped meet the needs of American development and made its distinctive contribution to the American character.
ref: 1964, John F. Kennedy, “Waves of Immigration-the Post-Revolutionary Forces”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: ...they cannot see through their current biases to realize that a police vehicle with the American flag is the ultimate American expression...
ref: 2019 April 14, Jennifer Welsh Zeiter, “Putting American Flags on Police Cars Sparks Backlash in Laguna Beach”, in Los Angeles Times::
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.
examples: text: This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to British North America.
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
examples: text: All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
ref: 2009, John C. Hull, Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page 182:
text: Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
ref: 2009, Shih-Feng Huang, Meihui Guo, Applied Quantitative Finance (Second Edition), Springer, page 295:
text: Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option is American style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.
ref: 2010, Johnathan Mun, Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
raw_tags: of an option
Synonyms: sense: from or related to the USA
english: UK & Commonwealth
translation: UK & Commonwealth
word: Yank
sense: from or related to the USA
word: USian
sense: from or related to the USA
word: USAian
sense: from or related to the USA
word: Usanian
sense: from or related to the USA
word: Usonian
sense: from or related to the USA
word: United Statian
sense: from or related to the USA
word: US American
sense: from or related to the USA
word: United Statesian
sense: from or related to the Americas
word: Western Hemispherian
Hyponyms: North
South
& Native American
Coordinate terms: sense: timing of option exercise
word: Bermudan
sense: timing of option exercise
word: Canary
sense: timing of option exercise
word: European
sense: timing of option exercise
word: Verde