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Americanism

Syllabification: (A·mer·i·can·ism)
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Definition of Americanism

noun

  • a word or phrase peculiar to or originating in the US.
  • the qualities regarded as definitive of America or Americans:the same Americanism that Whitman sees in the farmer

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