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Americanization

Definition: Americanization

Americanization

Noun

1. Assimilation into American culture.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Americanization

Synonym: Americanisation (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Americanization

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Americanization of Emily (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Americanization

DomainTitle

Books

  • Americanization of Edward Bok (reference)

  • Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the '50s & '60s (reference)

  • Muslims on the Americanization Path? (reference)

  • Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples (reference)

  • Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Americanization

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Americanization program at high school at Eufaula, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.

High school students at Americanization program. Eufaula, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.

High school principal watching Americanization program. Eufaula, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.

Duet, Americanization program. High school, Eufaula, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Americanization

"Americanization" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Americanization" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Americanization

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  americanization

22

  the americanization of canada

8

  americanization of emily

4

  americanization globalization

3

  americanization movement

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Americanization

Language Translations for "Americanization"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

amerikanisierung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εξαμερικανισμόσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אמרוק. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

amerikanisasi, pengamerikaan. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

americanizationay

   

Russian 

  

американизация. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

amerikalılaştırma. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự Mỹ hoá. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Americanization

Misspellings

"Americanization" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: americanisations. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Americanization"

Words rhyming with "Americanization" (pronounced 'A*mer`i*can*i*za"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Americanization

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-t-z"

-3 letters: racemization.

-4 letters: crimination, incriminate, reanimation, romanticize.

-5 letters: antianemia, emaciation, interionic, maceration, maintainer, marination.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Americanization


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6D 65 72 69 63 61 6E 69 7A 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --    .    .-.    ..    -.-.    .-    -.    ..    --..    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01101001 01111010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#122 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0065 0072 0069 0063 0061 006E 0069 007A 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357971847569678075926786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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