American
[ә'merikәn]
Definition
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of the United States.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of the continents and islands of the Americas; 'the American hemisphere'; 'American flora and fauna' .
(adj.) of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture; 'American citizens'; 'American English'; 'the American dream' .
Checker: Lorrie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.
(n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
Typist: Silvia
Definition
adj. pertaining to America esp. to the United States.—n. a native of America.—v.t. Amer′icanise to render American.—n. Amer′icanism a custom characteristic word phrase or idiom peculiar to Americans: condition of being an American citizen: devotion to American institutions.
Checker: Micawber
Examples
- Live the American Garibaldi, said Rinaldi. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- American deposits in the Miocene display a great variety of camels, giraffe camels with long necks, gazelle camels, llamas, and true camels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The history of Panama is American history purely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1749 he drew up proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania, which led, two years later, to the esta blishment of the first American Academy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In that subservience, and not in the meddling of Mr. Morgan, is the reason why American journalism is so flaccid, so repetitious and so dull. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The glyptodon was a monstrous South American armadillo, and a human skeleton has been found by Roth buried beneath its huge tortoise-like shell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Six weeks ago, at the American consul's, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn't forget dear little Beth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He's an American, one of the other captains said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There is a vein of mysticism in American life, and Mr. Bryan is its uncritical prophet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was an average body of American citizens aroused to action by an obvious evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Its first public exhibition was about the latter part of January, 1878, before the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, at New York. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Holly converter, covered by United States patents No. 86,303, and No. 86,304, January 26, 1869, represented one of the most important American developments of the Bessemer converter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Fish is one of the principal articles with which the North Americans trade to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The americans have no troublesome Neighbors, they are without foreign Possessions, and do not want the alliance of any Nation, for this Reason they have nothing to do with foreign Politics. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Few Americans know how great has been this influence on English political history for the last twenty years. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Rum is a very important article in the trade which the Americans carry on to the coast of Africa, from which they bring back negro slaves in return. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Will there be other Americans besides yourself? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There are many Americans there, and they give it in honor of the day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The Loyalist movement that took to Nova Scotia so many Americans after the War of Independence carried with it John, the son of this stalwart Continental. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Yet the defects of the great political system created by the Americans of the revolutionary period did not appear at once. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This ferment in the political ideas of the Americans was started by English leaven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- San Antonio was about equally divided in population between Americans and Mexicans. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Hungarians, the Germans, the Austrians, the Swiss, the English and the Americans have all invented useful forms of these rollers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We Americans always use the word in that limited sense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The English played well, but the Americans played better, and contested every inch of the ground as strongly as if the spirit of '76 inspired them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Early in November British troops were in Valenciennes and Americans in Sedan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Trevor