Americanism

americanism English Etymology en :af American -ism + 1 Pronunciation en /əˈmɛɹɪkənɪzm/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Americanism.wav Southern England Noun ~ A custom peculiar to the United States or the Americans. en Usonianism en rhetoric A word, phrase or linguistic feature originating from or specific to American English usage. en Yankeeism An Unparalleled Outrage Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns. en http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/13/americanisms-closer-to-home-imagine Americanisms are often closer to home than we imagine 2013-05-13 w:Steven Poole w:The Guardian A lot of other supposed Americanisms aren't Americanisms either. It's sometimes thought that "transportation" instead of the good old "transport" is an example of that annoying US habit of bolting on needless extra syllables to perfectly good words, but "transportation" is used in British English from 1540. en 2015 w:Joy Cowley 13 The Bakehouse Wellington w:Gecko Press 101 https://archive.org/details/bakehouse0000cowl/page/101/mode/1up 978-1-776570-07-2 “Oh come off it, honey bun. You know me. I never did the ordinary.” / “Don’t call me honey bun,” said Mum. “I don’t need any of your Americanisms in this house, thank you very much.” en-GB David Shariatmadari Ize on the prize: is Prince Charles the last guardian of British spelling? The Guardian 2019-04-18 https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2019/apr/18/ize-on-the-prize-is-prince-charles-the-last-guardian-of-british-spelling 0261-3077 There has been much spluttering about the prince’s use of ‘Americanisms’ in a letter to Emmanuel Macron, but the truth is more complicated So, where do we get the idea that -ize is an Americanism? https://web.archive.org/web/20261013071823/https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2019/apr/18/ize-on-the-prize-is-prince-charles-the-last-guardian-of-british-spelling 13 October 2026 A preference for the United States and the ideas it represents. en Americophilia en anti-Americanism en 2016-07-22 Donald Trump’s strategy in three words: ‘Americanism, not globalism’ Aaron Blake w:Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/22/donald-trump-just-put-his-border-wall-around-the-entire-united-states/ "The most important difference between our plan and that of our opponent is that our plan will put America first," Trump said. "Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo." https://web.archive.org/web/20250223062717/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/22/donald-trump-just-put-his-border-wall-around-the-entire-united-states/ 23 February 2025 en Roman Catholicism A putative current of Catholicism in the United States identified and condemned as heretical by Rome in the late 19th century, chiefly characterized by support for secularism and American institutions above Catholic doctrine. en 1999 Michael W. Cuneo The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism 0801862655 8 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8OL9tyvN5YcC&pg=PA8 Moreover, the enthusiasm with which Hecker’s ideas had been received among Catholic liberals in France served to increase Leo XIII’s suspicion that Americanism was yet another attempt, not so very different from the Gallicanisms of the past, to assert the independence of a national church from Rome. Coordinate terms English word or phrase characteristic of the American variety Derived terms en Native Americanism Related terms en Americanist Translations custom Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 美国主义 Esperanto: eo usonismo Finnish: fi amerikanismi French: fr américanisme m Macedonian: mk американи́зам m Malay: ms amerikanisme Polish: pl amerykanizm m Portuguese: pt americanismo m Russian: ru американи́зм m Slovak: sk amerikanizmus m linguistic feature Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 美語 měiyǔ Czech: cs amerikanismus m Dutch: nl amerikanisme n Esperanto: eo amerikanisme c Finnish: fi amerikanismi French: fr américanisme m German: de Amerikanismus m Greek: el αμερικανισμός m Hungarian: hu amerikanizmus Japanese: ja 米語 べいご, beigo Korean: ko 미어 Latvian: lv amerikānisms Macedonian: mk американи́зам m Polish: pl amerykanizm m Portuguese: pt americanismo m Russian: ru американи́зм m Serbo-Croatian: sh amerikanizam m Slovak: sk amerikanizmus m Spanish: es americanismo m, es angloamericanismo m Swedish: sv amerikanism c preference Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 美国主义 Finnish: fi amerikkalaismielisyys French: fr américanisme m Hungarian: hu amerikanizmus Polish: pl amerykanizm m Russian: ru американи́зм m Slovak: sk amerikanizmus m Swedish: sv amerikanism c Latin: la americanismus Anagrams en aaceiimmnrs minicameras en 6-syllable words hybridisms suffixed with -ism en United States Nationalism US politics