American

Etymology
From, or via 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Originally, relating to the New World, the continent America, then a native or inhabitant of the British North American colonies; now, a person born in, or a citizen, national, or inhabitant of, the United States of America.
 * 2) * 2008 August 9, Chris Moss, The Guardian:
 * 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.
 * 1) An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas; a Native American or an American Indian (now chiefly with qualifying word).
 * 2) * 1711,, The Spectator, 56.1:
 * The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
 * 1) * 2012,, ‘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’.
 * 1) 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 Africa and a migration to the New World from Eurasia turns out to be correct.
 * 1)   A size of type smaller than, 1-point type.
 * 1)   A size of type smaller than, 1-point type.

Translations

 * Albanian:, amerikane
 * Armenian: ամերիկացի
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: amerikano
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, americana
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: ʻAmelika
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, amerikanerinne
 * Nynorsk: amerikanar, amerikanarinne


 * Occitan: american
 * Pashto: امريکايی, امريکايۍ
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganach
 * Sicilian:, miricana
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: Waamerika
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: Amerikahin, Amerikano
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: người Mỹ
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: Americaniad


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, banor i SHBA; amerikane, banore e SHBA
 * Arabic: أَمْرِيكِيّ, أَمْرِيكِيَّةb
 * Egyptian Arabic: أمريكاني
 * Aragonese: estatounitense
 * Armenian: ամերիկացի, ամերիկուհի
 * Azerbaijani: amerikalı
 * Belarusian: амерыка́нец, амерыка́нка
 * Bengali: আমেরিকান
 * Bulgarian: америка́нец, америка́нка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Extremaduran: estauuniense
 * Farefare: Sʋlmi-pɛɛlga, Amerikanẽra, nasaara
 * Faroese: amerikanari
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ამერიკელი
 * German:,   ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian: ʻAmelika
 * Hebrew:, אָמֶרִיקָנִית
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: orang Amerika
 * Interlingua: statounitese
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: американдық, америкалық
 * Korean:, 미국 사람
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: американец,
 * Latin: Americanus
 * Latvian: amerikānis, amerikāniete
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: Америка́нец, Америка́нка
 * Menominee: (kece-)mōhkomān


 * Mongolian: америк хүн
 * Nahuatl: Tlacetilīllahtohcāyōtēcatl
 * Navajo: ílį́įgo Wááshindoon Bikéyah biiʼ kééhojitʼíinii, Bilagáana
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, amerikanerinne, USA-amerikaner, USA-amerikanerinne
 * Nynorsk: amerikanar, amerikanarinne,, USA-amerikanarinne
 * Occitan: etatsunidenc, american
 * Ojibwe: gichi-mookomaan
 * Ottawa: gchi-mookmaan
 * Pashto: امريکايی, امريکايۍ
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Potawatomi: kche-mokman
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, Amerikanka
 * Sicilian:, miricana
 * Skolt Sami: a´mmrik
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: Američàn, Američánka
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: Amerikano
 * Tajik: ,
 * Taos: phonsáyna
 * Thai: ชาวอเมริกัน, คนอเมริกัน,
 * Tibetan: ཨ་རི
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: amerikaly
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: امریکن
 * Uyghur: ئامېرىكىلىق, ئامېرىكان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: người Mỹ, người Hoa Kỳ
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: Americanwr
 * Yiddish: אַמעריקאַנער


 * Dutch: achtste petit


 * German: Achtelpetit

Proper noun

 * 1) The English language as spoken in the U.S.; American English.
 * 2) * 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.

Translations

 * Catalan: anglès americà
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 美式英語, 美式英语
 * Finnish: ; amerikka
 * French:
 * Galician: inglés americano
 * German:, , amerikanisches Englisch
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: アメリカ英語, 米英語,
 * Korean: ^미국 ^영어


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, amerikansk-engelsk
 * Nynorsk: amerikansk, amerikansk-engelsk
 * Occitan: anglés american
 * Persian: انگلیسی آمریکایی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: америка́нский англи́йский
 * Swedish: ,
 * Volapük: Lamerikänapük, Linglänapük Lamerikänik, Lamerikäna-Linglänapük

Adjective

 * Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
 * Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people or its culture.
 * Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
 * 1) * 2019 April 14, Jennifer Welsh Zeiter in "Putting American Flags on Police Cars Sparks Backlash in Laguna Beach", Los Angeles Times:
 * ...they cannot see through their current biases to realize that a police vehicle with the American flag is the ultimate American expression.
 * 1)  That can be exercised on any date between the issue date and the expiry date.
 * 2) * 2009,, Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page 182:
 * All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
 * 1) * 2009, Shih-Feng Huang and Meihui Guo, Applied Quantitative Finance (Second Edition), Springer, page 295:
 * Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
 * 1) * 2010, Johnathan Mun, Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons:
 * Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option is American style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.
 * 1) * 2009, Shih-Feng Huang and Meihui Guo, Applied Quantitative Finance (Second Edition), Springer, page 295:
 * Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
 * 1) * 2010, Johnathan Mun, Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons:
 * Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option is American style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.

Usage notes
Sometimes (usually outside of the U.S.) used pejoratively (see also anti-Americanism).

Translations

 * Arabic: أَمْرِيكِيّ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: амерыка́нскі, амэрыка́нскі
 * Bulgarian: америка́нски
 * Burmese: အမေရိကန်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: amerika
 * Finnish: Amerikan ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: ʻAmelika
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 南北アメリカ
 * Khmer: អាមេរិក
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian: amerikānisks, amerikāņu
 * Macedonian: америка́нски


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: amerikansk
 * Pashto: امريکايی
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: амѐричкӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Amerikahin, Amerikano
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:


 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አሜሪካዊ
 * Arabic: أَمْرِيكِيّv
 * Egyptian Arabic: أمريكاني
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: amerikalı, amerika
 * Belarusian: амерыка́нскі
 * Bengali:, মার্কিনী
 * Bulgarian: америка́нски
 * Burmese: အမေရိကန်
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ameerika
 * Finnish:, , Yhdysvaltain , Amerikan
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ამერიკული
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: ameriken
 * Hawaiian: ʻAmelika, haole
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: Usana
 * Interlingua: statounitese
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, (more precisely)
 * Japanese:, , アメリカン,
 * Kazakh: американдық, америка


 * Khmer: អាមេរិក
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, америка
 * Latvian: amerikānisks, amerikāņu
 * Lithuanian: amerikietiškas, amerikiečių
 * Macedonian: америка́нски
 * Malay: Amerika
 * Mongolian: америк
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: amerikansk
 * Pashto: امريکايی
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: амѐричкӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Amerikahin, Amerikano
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: amerikaly, amerika
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: امریکی
 * Uzbek:, amerika
 * Vietnamese: (thuộc), (thuộc) ;
 * Volapük: ; Lamerikänanik; Lamerikäna-Linglänapükik
 * Yiddish: אַמעריקאַניש


 * Finnish:


 * Hebrew: ,
 * Latin:


 * Romanian: