Americanとは

語源

From America +‎ -n, or via Modified Latin Americanus (Latin americanus) with the same etymology.

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹɪkən/

名詞

American (複数形 Americans)

1. Originally, a native or inhabitant of the British North American colonies of European descent; now, a person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United States of America. [from 17th c.]
   • 2008, Chris Moss, The Guardian, 9 Aug 2008:

     They say Americans don't walk. Well, they do in the Navajo Nation - because even if northern Arizona has gigabytes of photogenic vistas, getting out of the car is the only way to get your boots covered in desert dust and soak up the silence.

2. An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas; a Native American or an American Indian. (Now chiefly with qualifying word.) [from 16th c.]
   • 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 56.1:

     The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.

   • 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402:

     Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American’.

3. An inhabitant of the Americas. More often this is specified as either North American, Central American or South American.

   Every American's origin is, historically speaking, by immigration, if scientific speculation that points to a human origin in Asia and a migration to the New World over frozen Bering Strait turns out to be correct.

4. (uncountable, US printing, まれに, dated) A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.

同意語

• Western Hemispherian, New Worlder

下位語

• Ameritard

固有名詞

American

1. The English language as spoken in the USA; American English.
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 756:

     We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us in American.

形容詞

American (comparative more American, superlative most American)

1. Of or pertaining to the Americas. More often this is specified as either "North American" or "South American."
2. Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people or its culture.

   Thanksgiving is an American tradition.

   He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.

   • 1851 October 18, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in The Whale, 1st British edition, London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 14262177; Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 14 November 1851, OCLC 57395299:

     Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.

使用する際の注意点

Sometimes (usually outside of the USA) used pejoratively (see also anti-Americanism).

同意語

• Western Hemispherian, New Worlder
• (米国用法 米国用法): United Statesian, USAian, Usanian, Usonian, US American, US-ian; (in Cockney rhyming スラング:) Septic, Usonan

派生語

Pages starting with "American".

参考

• Yankee
• Yank

参照

• North America
• South America
• United States of America

アナグラム

• amacrine, in camera