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ANTI-AMERICAN

Definition: ANTI-AMERICAN

ANTI-AMERICAN

Adjective

1. Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Usage: ANTI-AMERICAN

DomainUsage

Screenplays

An anti-American eagle. (Our Man Flint; writing credit: Hal Fimberg)

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

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Commercial Usage: ANTI-AMERICAN

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Books

  • Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism (reference)

  • Words Have Consequences: The Impact of Incitement and Anti-American and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on American Interests in the Middle East: Heari (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: ANTI-AMERICAN

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Economic History

Croatia

There is little domestic anti-American sentiment. (references)

France

Occasionally, anti-American sentiments, particularly among groups likely to be economically harmed by U.S. policies, produce demonstrations against U.S. investments. (references)

Indonesia

Indonesian foreign policy under the "New Order" government of President Soeharto moved away from the stridently anti-Western, anti-American posturing that characterized the latter part of the Sukarno era. (references)

Minorities

Iran

Recent anti-American and anti-Israeli demonstrations have included the denunciation of "Jews," as opposed to the past practice of denouncing only "Israel" and "Zionism," adding to the threatening atmosphere for the community. (references)

Travel

Belgium

Belgium remains a relatively safe country and anti-American sentiment is rare. (references)

Russia

Anti-American demonstrations during the 1999 NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia briefly affected Embassy services. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ANTI-AMERICAN

"ANTI-AMERICAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ANTI-AMERICAN" is used about 43 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%4352,181

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

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Expression: ANTI-AMERICAN

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ANTI-AMERICAN": ultra-anti-american.

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

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Modern Translations: ANTI-AMERICAN

Language Translations for "ANTI-AMERICAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

反美国. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

反米 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

は"べい. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anti-americanay

   

Portuguese

  

antiamericano. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

антиамериканский (unamerican, un-american). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

antiamericano. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ANTI-AMERICAN

Misspellings

"ANTI-AMERICAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: interamerican. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "ANTI-AMERICAN"

Words rhyming with "ANTI-AMERICAN" (pronounced 'An`ti-A*mer"i*can'): AEsthetican, Antelucan, Anti-Gallican, Barracan, Basilican, Cancan, Cassican, Cooncan, Copernican, Dellacruscan, Flucan, Jamaican, Majorcan, Malacostracan, Maracan, Mechoacan, Mexican, Molluscan, Moroccan, Oscan, Pan-American, Pan-Anglican, Pecan, Pelican, Publican, Puplican, Rubican, SCAN, Spheniscan, toucan, Tucan, Vatican, Vulcan. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ANTI-AMERICAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: antianemia, maintainer.

-3 letters: anticrime, carnitine, catamenia, criminate, inanimate, incarnate.

-4 letters: actiniae, actinian, amanitin, animater, antiarin, carinate, craniate, maintain, mannitic, marinate, trainman, trainmen, triennia.

-5 letters: acarine, actinia, airtime, amanita, amentia, amirate, anaemia, anaemic, ancient, animate, antiair, anticar, antiman, cannier, cantina, carinae, carmine, cateran, ceratin, certain, cinerin, citrine, creatin, crinite, entrain, inciter, inertia, interim, intimae, mannite.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ANTI-AMERICAN


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

41 4E 54 49 2D 41 4D 45 52 49 43 41 4E

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

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

01000001 01001110 01010100 01001001 00101101 01000001 01001101 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#45 &#65 &#77 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004E 0054 0049 002D 0041 004D 0045 0052 0049 0043 0041 004E

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

35485443153547395243373548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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