All-American Definition

ôlə-mĕrĭ-kən
adjective
Representative of the people of the United States or their ideals; typically American.
An all-American family; their all-American generosity.
American Heritage
Made up entirely of Americans or American parts.
Webster's New World
Chosen as the best amateur in the United States at a particular position or event.
An all-American fullback.
American Heritage
Representative of the U.S. as a whole, or chosen as the best in the U.S.
Webster's New World
Composed entirely of Americans or American materials.
An all-American negotiating team; cars of all-American manufacture.
American Heritage
noun
An all-American athlete.
American Heritage
A hypothetical football team or other team made up of college players voted the best of the year in the U.S.
Webster's New World
A player chosen for such a team.
Webster's New World

A United States patriot.

He was regarded by the other soldiers as an all-American for his courage in battle.
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Other Word Forms of All-American

Noun

Singular:
all-American
Plural:
all-americans

All-American Sentence Examples

  • In the autumn of 1921 he undertook the general supervision of relief work in Russia, first having exacted, as a condition, the release of all American prisoners held by the Soviet authorities.

  • From the manner of assemblage, all American languages are agglutinative, or holophrastic, but they should not be called polysynthetic or incorporative or inflexional.

  • For ceremonial purposes all American tribes were expert in the masquerade and dramatic apparel.

  • In the difficulty between England and the United States over the Venezuelan boundary (Dec. 1895) Mexico expressed strong adherence to the Monroe doctrine in the abstract, and suggested that its maintenance should not be left wholly to the United States, but should be undertaken by all American Powers.

  • But they were, considering the conditions under which the instrument was framed, comparatively few, and the Constitution, when one regards it as a piece of drafting, deserves the admiration which it has received from nearly all American and most foreign critics.

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Words Starting With

AALALL

Words Ending With

NANCAN

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Words Starting With A and Ending With N

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