American
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
media
printing
publishing
rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-
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
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Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.?
Italian Amerigoder.
New Latin Americalbor.
English America
Middle English -n
English -n
English American
From America + -n. Compare New Latin amerī̆canus.
Base: America
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: Americans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Am.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Amer.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Americanian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Murican
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more American
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most American
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Am.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Amer.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Americanian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Murican
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A citizen or national of the United States of America.
pos: noun
examples: Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation... is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.
...the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves that their usefulness was at an end. Had they done that they would have had to abdicate. For it was not possible for them to turn themselves into mere bandits, like the American millionaires, consciously clinging to unjust privileges and beating down opposition by bribery and tear-gas bombs. After all, they belonged to a class with a certain tradition, they had been to public schools where the duty of dying for your country, if necessary, is laid down as the first and greatest of the Commandments.
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
Graham Norton: But the people coming up to you now, like the Americans, well, you know, the Americans, they're not shy, the Americans.
Maggie Smith: No. Well, no but I don't go anywhere where really they can get at me. It's usually in museums and art galleries and things, so that limits things. I keep away from there, and Harrod's I don't go near.
Roughly two-thirds of Americans default to the General American accent, with other dialects like Southern, AAVE, and Chicano usually being considered lower prestige outside of entertainment and politics.
gloss: Any inhabitant of the Americas.
pos: noun
gloss: A citizen or inhabitant of British America.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American’. ]
gloss: An inhabitant of French or Spanish New World colonies.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1839, Washington Irving, 'National Nomenclature', The Knickerbocker
In France, when I have announced myself as an American, I have been supposed to belong to one of the French colonies; in Spain, to be from Mexico, or Peru, or some other Spanish-American country.
gloss: The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
humorous
informal
examples: -A . Spanish ; my mother and father speak American ; my brothers and sisters speak Spanish ; when he is in the house , we speak American ; we have American prayers at night before we go to bed . Q. Is that usual in the families of the[…]
“Do you speak American,” then asked the lady.
“Oh, naow,” he replied with a still stronger emphasis.
“But wouldn't you like to learn American?" persisted the lady.
“Oh, naow, thanks," answered this sturdy little patriot. […]
The fact that they speak American and don ' t wear German uniforms makes them more dangerous than the Jerries themselves . What does your Springfield Plan do about them ? Here is a fighting challenge . In the light of this challenge the[…]
Donate for Give. Good American, but not good English.
We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us in American.
"Where do you keep your cash, bub?" asked Idris hoarsely. His American was better than Hassan's English.
JAMES CARTER: Mr. Rice-a-Roni; don't even speak American.
DON COLLIER: This is an American tank; we talk American.
gloss: American cheese.
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
alt-of
clipping
examples: Q: What kinds of cheese do you have? A: We have American, Swiss, cheddar, provolone, or wiz.
gloss: A steam locomotive of the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement.
pos: noun
gloss: A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
rare
uncountable
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.
pos: adj
examples: He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
Each new wave of immigration helped meet the needs of American development and made its distinctive contribution to the American character.
...they cannot see through their current biases to realize that a police vehicle with the American flag is the ultimate American expression...
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to British North America.
pos: adj
tags: historical
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
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.
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.
Synonyms: Western Hemispherian
New Worlder
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: amerikan
lang: Albanian
word: amerikane
lang: Arabic
word: أَمْرِيكِيّ
roman: ʔamrīkiyy
lang: Arabic
word: أَمْرِيكِيَّة
roman: ʔamrīkiyya
lang: Armenian
word: ամերիկացի
roman: amerikacʻi
lang: Asturian
word: americanu
lang: Asturian
word: americana
lang: Bulgarian
word: американец
roman: amerikánec
lang: Bulgarian
word: американка
roman: amerikánka
lang: Bulgarian
word: американче
roman: amerikánče
lang: Catalan
word: americà
lang: Catalan
word: americana
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 美洲人
roman: měizhōurén
lang: Danish
word: amerikaner
lang: Dutch
word: Amerikaan
lang: Esperanto
word: amerikano
lang: Finnish
word: amerikkalainen
lang: French
word: Américain
lang: Galician
word: americano
lang: Galician
word: americana
lang: German
word: Amerikaner
lang: German
word: Amerikanerin
lang: Hawaiian
word: ʻAmelika
lang: Ido
word: Amerikano
lang: Italian
word: americano
lang: Kankanaey
word: Milikano
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: amerîkî
lang: Latin
word: amerī̆canus
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: amerikaner
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: amerikanerinne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: amerikanar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: amerikanarinne
lang: Occitan
word: american
lang: Occitan
word: americana
lang: Pashto
word: امريکايی
roman: amrikâyay
lang: Pashto
word: امريکايۍ
roman: amrikâyëy
lang: Portuguese
word: americano
lang: Portuguese
word: americana
lang: Romanian
word: american
lang: Romanian
word: americancă
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: Ameireaganach
lang: Sicilian
word: miricanu
lang: Sicilian
word: miricana
lang: Spanish
word: americano
lang: Spanish
word: americana
lang: Swahili
word: Waamerika
lang: Swedish
word: amerikan
lang: Swedish
word: amerikanare
lang: Tagalog
word: Amerikahin
lang: Tagalog
word: Amerikano
lang: Tamil
word: அமெரிக்கர்
roman: amerikkar
lang: Thai
word: คนอเมริกัน
lang: Turkish
word: Amerikalı
lang: Vietnamese
word: người Mỹ
lang: Volapük
word: Meropan
lang: Welsh
word: Americaniad