[
US
/əˈmɛɹəkən, əˈmɛɹɪkən/
]
NOUN
- a native or inhabitant of the United States
- a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country
- the English language as used in the United States
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or characteristic of the continents and islands of the Americas
American flora and fauna
the American hemisphere -
of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture
American English
American citizens
the American dream
How To Use American In A Sentence
- It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
- Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level.
- A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell. Bird Cloud
- A lot of the foods that we connect with African-Americans, whether totemically, whether positively or negatively, are indeed and in fact foods from the continent. NPR Topics: News
- Naturally, this makes interpersonal relations, especially with societies unexposed to the advantages of the American lifestyle, a little difficult.
- Clinton will fight for the American people, and Obama will sit in a racest church for another 20 years where The "rev" is preaching hate, racism, and black seperatism. Clinton: Put down the Blackberry at home
- Ignorance of Sarah Palin offends anyone who is educated, it's an insult to the intellectual world, american intelligence. Palin plans 'aggressive' fundraising push
- The Yellow Wallpaper is the masterpiece of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a wellknown American feminist pioneer and writer.
- Whether you live in the suburbs or in the vital enclaves of a Little India, you are a part of America and American life.
- The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops.