American

noun Americans · Am. · Amer. · Americanian · Murican

1. countable, uncountable A citizen or national of the United States of America. 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.
2. countable, uncountable Any inhabitant of the Americas.
3. countable, historical, uncountable A citizen or inhabitant of British America.
4. archaic, countable, uncountable An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas. The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
5. countable, obsolete, uncountable An inhabitant of French or Spanish New World colonies. 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.
6. colloquial, countable, humorous, informal, uncountable The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America. -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[…]
7. abbreviation, clipping, uncountable Clipping of American cheese Q: What kinds of cheese do you have? A: We have American, Swiss, cheddar, provolone, or wiz.
8. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of American cockroach
9. countable, uncountable A steam locomotive of the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement.
10. US, dated, rare, uncountable A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.

Similar: Yank, Statesider, Ameritard, Seppo, USian, Usonian, United Statian, US-American, United Statesian, American, Americunt, septic, Usanian, US-ian, Usonan, US American, U.S. American, Yankee, Western Hemispherian, New Worlder

adjective more American · most American · Am. · Amer. · Americanian · Murican

1. Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture. He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.

   Similar: Yank, USian, USAian, Usanian, Usonian, United Statian, US American, United Statesian

2. uncommon Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas. This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.

   Similar: Western Hemispherian

3. historical Of, from, or pertaining to British North America.
4. archaic Of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
5. not comparable, of an option Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry; contrasted with European. 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.

proper noun Am. · Amer. · Americanian · Murican

1. A township in Allen County, Ohio, United States.