AMERICAN Definition & Meaning

American

[ uh-mer-i-kuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to the United States of America or its inhabitants:
an American citizen.
of or relating to North or South America; of the Western Hemisphere:
the American continents.
of or relating to the Indigenous peoples of North and South America.

noun

a citizen of the United States of America.
a native or inhabitant of North or South America.
an Indigenous person of North or South America.
American English.
a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and no rear truck.

American

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adjective

of or relating to the United States of America, its inhabitants, or their form of English
of or relating to the American continent

noun

a native or citizen of the US
a native or inhabitant of any country of North, Central, or South America
the English language as spoken or written in the United States

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Other �y��vlog Forms

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of American¹

First recorded in 1570–80; Americ(a) + -an

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It's a popular sneaker line by a large American brand, created four decades ago for homegrown basketball legend Michael Jordan.

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On a quick drive around the small Ohio town of Delta, you can spot nearly as many Trump flags as American stars-and-stripes banners.

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China and India were among the first to have teams on the ground in Myanmar, according to former American humanitarian officials.

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He reinvented himself in the mid-1950s, moving to the US where he became the first director of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York.

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He appears confident that his economic vision of a rebuilt, job-rich American manufacturing sector protected from foreign competition - a vision he has closely held for decades - will ultimately be proven right.

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