Definitions for americanisms

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americanisms A·mer·i·can·ism

Spelling: [uh-mer-i-kuh-niz-uh m]

IPA: /əˈmɛr ɪ kəˌnɪz əm/

Americanisms is a 12 letter English word.

You can make 967 anagrams from letters in americanisms (aaceiimmnrss).

Definitions for americanisms

noun

1. a custom, trait, belief, etc., peculiar to the United States of America or its citizens.
2. a word, phrase, or other language feature that is especially characteristic of the English language as spoken or written in the U.S. such a word or phrase first recorded in American Engish.
3. devotion to or preference for the U.S. and its institutions.

Origin of americanisms

First recorded in 1775-85; American + -ism

Examples for americanisms

I thanked him for the item, resolving to add it to my list of curious americanisms.

The best of these collections of americanisms, and by long odds, is Thornton's.

Butte Creek, in Montana, is a name made up of two americanisms.

I call them americanisms without inquiring into their history.

Thornton shows that jag, bust, bat and to crook the elbow are also americanisms.

He published a vocabulary of americanisms, and a Greek and English lexicon.

I think that expression 'cut loose' is one of the best of all our americanisms.

The result, of course, was a wholesale slaughter of americanisms.

The expressions "right here" and "right there" are americanisms.

Fancy being obliged to explain americanisms to an American!'