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Americanize
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americanize
English
Alternative forms
en Americanise -ise spelling
Etymology
From en American ize; first attested in 1797.
Pronunciation
en en-us-Americanize.ogg US
Verb
en -ize spelling Canada
To render American; to adapt to the custom, culture, or style of the United States of America.
To localize a medium for sale or use in the United States.
Antonyms
en de-Americanize
en un-Americanize
Derived terms
en Americanizable Americanizer
Related terms
en Americanization
en Americanism
Translations
to make American
Arabic: ar أَمْرَكَ
Egyptian Arabic: arz يأمرك m yeʔámrek, arz تأمرك f teʔámrek, arz يأمركو p yeʔamréku
Belarusian: be амерыканізава́ць impf pf, be амерыканізі́раваць impf pf
Bulgarian: bg американизи́рам impf pf
Catalan: ca americanitzar
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 美國化, cmn 美語用法 měiyǔ yòngfǎ linguistically
Czech: cs amerikanizovat impf pf
Danish: da amerikanisere
Dutch: nl amerikaniseren
Esperanto: eo usonigi
Estonian: et amerikaniseerima
Finnish: fi amerikkalaistaa
French: fr américaniser
Galician: gl americanizar
German: de amerikanisieren
Greek: el αμερικανοποιώ, el εξαμερικανίζω
Hungarian: hu amerikanizál
Italian: it americanizzare
Japanese: ja アメリカ風にする Amerikafū ni suru, ja アメリカナイズ amerikanaizu suru アメリカナイズする, ja 米国化 べいこくかする, beikokuka suru 米国化する
Korean: ko 미국화하다
Macedonian: mk американизи́ра impf pf
Malay: ms amerikakan
Marshallese: mh kaamedkaik
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb amerikanisere
Polish: pl amerykanizować impf, pl zamerykanizować pf
Portuguese: pt americanizar
Romanian: ro americaniza a americaniza
Russian: ru американизи́ровать impf pf
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh американизи́рати impf pf
Latin: sh amerikanizírati impf pf
Slovak: sk amerikanizovať impf pf
Slovene: sl amerikanizirati impf pf
Spanish: es americanizar
Swedish: sv amerikanisera
Ukrainian: uk американізува́ти impf pf
Vietnamese: vi Mỹ hóa, vi Mỹ hoá, vi Mĩ hoá
Yiddish: yi אַמעריקאַניזירן