Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns.
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Americanism
//əˈmɛɹɪkənɪzm//
Synonyms for "americanism" (23 found)
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38 translations across 21 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 美国主义 noun (custom)
- 美国主义 noun (preference)
- 美語 /美语 noun (linguistic feature)
Czech
1 entries- amerikanismus noun (linguistic feature)
Dutch
1 entries- amerikanisme noun (linguistic feature)
Esperanto
2 entries- amerikanisme noun (linguistic feature)
- usonismo noun (custom)
Finnish
3 entries- amerikanismi noun (custom)
- amerikanismi noun (linguistic feature)
- amerikkalaismielisyys noun (preference)
French
3 entries- américanisme noun (custom)
- américanisme noun (linguistic feature)
- américanisme noun (preference)
German
1 entries- Amerikanismus noun (linguistic feature)
Greek
1 entries- αμερικανισμός noun (linguistic feature)
Hungarian
2 entries- amerikanizmus noun (linguistic feature)
- amerikanizmus noun (preference)
Japanese
1 entries- 米語 noun (linguistic feature)
Korean
1 entries- 미어 noun (linguistic feature)
Latvian
1 entries- amerikānisms noun (linguistic feature)
Macedonian
2 entries- американи́зам noun (custom)
- американи́зам noun (linguistic feature)
Malay
1 entries- amerikanisme noun (custom)
Polish
2 entries- amerykanizm noun (custom)
- amerykanizm noun (linguistic feature)
Portuguese
2 entries- americanismo noun (custom)
- americanismo noun (linguistic feature)
Russian
3 entries- американи́зм noun (custom)
- американи́зм noun (linguistic feature)
- американи́зм noun (preference)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- amerikanizam noun (linguistic feature)
Slovak
3 entries- amerikanizmus noun (custom)
- amerikanizmus noun (linguistic feature)
- amerikanizmus noun (preference)
Spanish
2 entries- americanismo noun (linguistic feature)
- angloamericanismo noun (linguistic feature)
Swedish
2 entries- amerikanism noun (linguistic feature)
- amerikanism noun (preference)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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.
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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?
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"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."
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