American
Meaning
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- Any inhabitant of the Americas.
- A citizen or inhabitant of British America.
- Synonym of American Indian or Native American, an indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.
- A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.
- A citizen or national of the United States of America.
- (colloquial,informal) The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America.
- American cheese.
Synonyms
US citizen
American language
white person
person from USA
American people
citizen of the United States
american
American woman
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *amalaz Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder. Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.? Italian Amerigoder. New Latin Americalbor. English America Middle English -n English -n English American From America + -n. compare Latin americānus.
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