Americanism

Definitions: Americanism

Americanism

Noun

1. Loyalty to the USA and its institutions.

2. An expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans.

3. A custom that is peculiar to the US or its citizens.

Date "Americanism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Americanism

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Neologism	Dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Americanism

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Americanism also called "Americentrism" is the idea of an American ethnicity and the holding of American values as ideal.

Compare: Sovietism, Anti-Sovietism, Anti-Americanism

An Americanism is a word or phrase used commonly in America that has been more recently introduced into British English (for example), especially through the popular media of television and movies. However the term is also used for old usages which have persisted in America while falling out of favour in Britain and elsewhere - often in ignorance that this is what has happened.

Many expressions which spread from America are regarded as Americanisms for a while and then gradually become assimilated into British English. But if there is a direct equivalent this tends not to happen; the American flavour is retained. For instance, British people may occasionally use the phrase "step on the gas" but remain aware that it is an Americanism because they continue to fill their cars with "petrol" (and so the phrases "step on it" or "put your foot down" remain much more widely used).

Some writing conventions fall into the second category. Sometimes the expressions "Mr. Smith" and "July 15th, 1960" are regarded as Americanisms, with "Mr Smith" and "15th July, 1960" their British equivalents. But some English persons still living can remember being taught in school to write "Mr. Smith" rather than the newer usage "Mr Smith". More recently it has been taught that only abbreviations which lack their final letters should be given a full stop (period), resulting in "Col." and "Rev." but "Mr" and "Dr" as examples. Regarding dates, a look into a couple of British novels shows the former date style being used in 1859 while by 1927 the two were being used interchangeably (by the same character!). Today most British people would regard either form as acceptable. On the other hand, writing the date as 7/15/60 (rather than 15/7/60) would definitely be seen as American.

Similar remarks presumably apply to other non-American varieties of English.

References

The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins, 1859
Unnatural Death, Dorothy L. Sayers, 1927

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Americanism."

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Crosswords: Americanism

Specialty definitions using "Americanism": dumpster diving ♦ Section. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Americanism" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (americanism).

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Commercial Usage: Americanism

Domain	Title
Books	Art & Politics in the 1930s: Americanism, Marxism & Modernism (reference) Beyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs (Contributions in Latin American Studies, No. 18) (reference) The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness (reference) True Americanism (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Americanism

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Ugly Americanism (ug'-li a-mer'-i-can-ism), n. a kind of hypocrisy where the richest country in the world talks about human rights while developing a neutron bomb / a WIN poster by Peg Averill.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Spoken Usage: Americanism

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Maureen O'Hara	Believe me, I think John Wayne was a fine actor. He could not have been respected by the entire world for not just his Americanism, but for his portrayals on the screen if he wasn't a good actor.
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Usage Frequency: Americanism

"Americanism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Americanism" is used about 14 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
Noun (singular)	100%	14	93,893

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

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Expression: Americanism

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Americanism": anti-americanism.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Americanism

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
americanism anti	30
americanism	28
americanism anti canadian	11
americanism anti europe in	6
americanism anti greece in	5
americanism anti book france	4
americanism history hooded klan klux ku	4
americanism anti france	3
americanism pan	3
americanism council first vatican	2
americanism anti in korea	2
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Modern Translations: Americanism

Language		Translations for "Americanism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		amerikanizëm, prirje proamerikane. (various references)

Arabic		‏إصطلاح اميركي. (various references)

Bulgarian		американофилство, американизъм. (various references)

Czech		amerikanismus. (various references)

Dutch		amerikanisme. (various references)

Finnish		amerikkalaisuus. (various references)

French		américanisme. (various references)

German		amerikanismus. (various references)

Greek		αμερικανισμόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		amerikanizmus. (various references)

Indonesian		amerikanisme. (various references)

Italian		americanismo. (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, Americanize, America's Cup race, Ameslan, amethyst, amoebic dysentery, Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System, crawfish, dogwood, puma, redwood). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		アメリカニズ� . (various references)

Manx		Americaanish, Americaanaghys. (various references)

Papiamen		amerikanismo. (various references)

Pig Latin		americanismay

Portuguese		americanismo. (various references)

Romanian		americanism. (various references)

Russian		американизм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		amerikamizam. (various references)

Spanish		americanismo. (various references)

Swedish		amerikanism. (various references)

Turkish		amerika'ya bağlılık, amerikan ingilizcesine özgü deyim, amerikalılara özgü özellik. (various references)

Ukranian		американський звичай, американізм. (various references)

Vietnamese		từ ngữ đặc Mỹ sự thân Mỹ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Americanism

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

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Rhyming with "Americanism"

Words rhyming with "Americanism" (pronounced 'A*mer"i*can*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism, Anilinism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Americanism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-m-m-n-r-s"
	-3 letters: acarines, amnesiac, canaries, carmines, casimire, cesarian, cremains, macrames, marasmic, minicams, minicars, racemism.
	-4 letters: acarine, acrasin, ammines, amnesia, amnesic, anaemic, anemias, animism, arcsine, arnicas, arsenic, caimans, cameras, camisia, carinae, carinas, carmine, carnies, cinemas, irenics, macrame, maimers, maniacs, marinas, marines, menisci, miasmic, mincers, mincier, minicam, minicar, misname, narcism, remains, seminar, senarii, sericin.
	-5 letters: acinar, aimers.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-m-m-n-r-s"
	+3 letters: microanatomies.
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