Americanism Definition

ə-mĕrĭ-kə-nĭzəm
noun
A custom, trait, or tradition originating in the United States.
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A custom, characteristic, or belief of or originating in the U.S.
Webster's New World
A word, phrase, or idiom characteristic of English as it is spoken in the United States.
American Heritage
A word, phrase, grammatical construction, or other feature originating in or peculiar to American English.
Webster's New World
Allegiance to the United States and its customs and institutions.
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Other Word Forms of Americanism

Noun

Singular:
Americanism
Plural:
americanisms

Origin of Americanism

Americanism Sentence Examples

  • It might be called "English Traits and American Confessions," for nowhere does Emerson's Americanism come out more strongly.

  • Despite, however, its heavy foreign admixture the old Americanism of the city remains strikingly predominant.

  • The Irish and American bishops he summoned to Rome to confer with him on the subjects of Home Rule and of "Americanism" respectively.

  • In the state campaign of 1859 he made a speech attacking the Fugitive Slave Law and arguing for state's rights and thus injured his political standing in Wisconsin; and in April he delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, an oration on "True Americanism," which coming from an alien was intended to clear the Republican party of the charge of "nativism."

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Words Starting With

AAMAME

Words Ending With

MSMISM

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Americanism

Words Starting With A and Ending With M

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With A11 Letter Words Ending With M