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Americanist

Americanist noun: somebody who favors the values of the USA.

Noun

Americanist (plural Americanists)

  1. Somebody who favors the values of the USA.
    • 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.2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2025
  2. An expert in the study of America.
  3. A proponent of the Americanist phonetic notation.

Adjective

Americanist (comparative more Americanist, superlative most Americanist)

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

Forms of Americanist

Noun
pluralAmericanists
Adjective
comparativemore Americanist
superlativemost Americanist

Origin of Americanist

From American + -ist.

Phrases with Americanist

Questions about Americanist

What does Americanist mean?
Americanist means somebody who favors the values of the USA.
What part of speech is Americanist?
Americanist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Americanist?
The plural of Americanist is Americanists.

Words near Americanist in the dictionary

  1. Americanisers
  2. Americanises
  3. Americanising
  4. Americanism
  5. Americanisms
  6. Americanist
  7. Americanistic
  8. Americanistically
  9. Americanistics
  10. Americanists
  11. Americanitis

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