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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. American English.

  5. a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and no rear truck.

American

/ əˈɛɪə /

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Americanly adverb
  • Americanness noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of American1

First recorded in 1570–80; Americ(a) + -an
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"I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people's goals."

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The US embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday issued an evacuation plan for American citizens currently in Israel.

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Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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The president recently took the nearly unprecedented step of deploying American troops stateside.

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The first American pope has been a font of endless, odd connections to the New World that clang against the public perception of the ancient Catholic Church.

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