Americanize

Definitions: Americanize

Americanize

Verb

1. Make American in character; "The year in the US has completely Americanized him".

2. Become American in character; "After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized".

Note: Americanize \A*mer"i*can*ize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Americanizer; present participle verb or noun Americanizing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Americanize

Synonym: Americanise (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Neologism	Verb: coin words, coin a term; backform; Americanize, Anglicize.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Americanize

English words defined with "Americanize": Americanizer, Americanizing. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Lydia and the Present Ort/Rr Special Selection 6-Pack Americanize (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	My Americanize Wife (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Many peoples - one nation Let us unite to Americanize America.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Americanize" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Americanize" is used about 5 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	80%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "Americanize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		amerikaniseer. (various references)

Albanian		amerikanizoj. (various references)

Arabic		‏تأمرك, ‏أمرك. (various references)

Bulgarian		американизирам, поамериканчвам. (various references)

Czech		amerikanizovat, poameriètit. (various references)

Dutch		amerikaniseren. (various references)

Finnish		amerikkalaistaa. (various references)

French		américaniser. (various references)

German		amerikanisieren. (various references)

Greek		εξαμερικανίζω. (various references)

Hungarian		amerikanizál. (various references)

Indonesian		mengamerikakan. (various references)

Italian		americanizzare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		アメーバ赤痢 (AMeDAS, amenity, American, American casual, American coffee, American football, American Indian, American League, American plan, American rugby, American sign language, Americanism, America's Cup race, Ameslan, amethyst, amoebic dysentery, Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System, crawfish, dogwood, puma, redwood). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		アメリカナイズ . (various references)

Pig Latin		americanizeay

Portuguese		americanizar. (various references)

Romanian		americaniza. (various references)

Russian		американизировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		amerikanizovati. (various references)

Spanish		americanizar. (various references)

Swedish		amerikanisera. (various references)

Turkish		amerikalılaştırmak, amerikalılaşmak. (various references)

Ukranian		вживати американізмами, надавати громадянство сша, американізувати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Americanize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Americaine, americanese, Americanise, americanist. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "Americanize" (pronounced 'A*mer"i*can*ize'): Abolitionize, Acclimatize, Acetize, Achromatize, Actualize, Adonize, Adulterize, Adverbialize, Africanize, Agatize, Agnize, Agrarianize, Albumenize, Alchemize, Alcoholize, Algebraize, Alkalize, Allotropize, Alphabetize, Aluminize, Amalgamize, Amortize, Anabaptize, Anachronize, Anaesthetize, Anagrammatize, Analogize, Anarchize, Anathematize, Anatomize, Angelize, Anglicize, Angurize, Animalize, Annalize, Anthropomorphize, Antipathize, Antiquarianize, Aphetize, Aphorize, Apostatize, Apothegmatize, Apotheosize, Appetize, Apprize, Archaize, Argumentize, Aromatize, Arterialize, Artificialize. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-i-m-n-r-z"
	-3 letters: racemize.
	-4 letters: acarine, anaemic, camerae, carinae, carmine, czarina, eirenic, menacer, mincier, minicar.
	-5 letters: acinar, airman, airmen, amerce, aminic, anemia, anemic, arcane, arnica, caiman, camera, careen, carina, carman, carmen, carnie, cinema, crania, eczema, ermine, iceman, icemen, irenic, maniac, marina, marine, mazier, meaner, meanie, meinie, menace, mincer, raceme, recane, remain, rename, zanier.
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