Americanist

English

Etymology

From American +‎ -ist.

Noun

Americanist (plural Americanists)

  1. Somebody who favors the values of the USA.
    • 2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 1 August 2025:
      He’s [JD Vance] creating a fake position—that Americanists should be built on nothing but fealty to the Declaration of Independence—in order to argue his real position: that Americanists should have nothing to do with the ideals and the Declaration of Independence.
  2. An expert in the study of America.
  3. (phonetics) A proponent of the Americanist phonetic notation.

Translations

Adjective

Americanist (comparative more Americanist, superlative most Americanist)

  1. Favoring the values of the USA.
  2. (phonetics) Of or relating to a phonetic notation developed for transcription of Native American and European languages. See Americanist phonetic notation.

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