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Americanly

Americanly adverb: in an American manner; in a way characteristic of Americans.

Adverb

Americanly (comparative more Americanly, superlative most Americanly)

  1. In an American manner; in a way characteristic of Americans.
    • They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental.1913, William Dean Howells, Familiar Spanish Travels
    • Once all experience is finally reduced to marketable image, once the receiving user of user-friendly receivers can break from the coffle and choose freely, Americanly, from an Americanly infinite variety of moving images hardly distinguishable from real-life images, and can then choose further just...1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN

Forms of Americanly

comparativemore Americanly
superlativemost Americanly

Origin of Americanly

From American + -ly.

Questions about Americanly

What does Americanly mean?
Americanly means in an American manner; in a way characteristic of Americans.
What part of speech is Americanly?
Americanly is an adverb.

Words near Americanly in the dictionary

  1. Americanizer
  2. Americanizers
  3. Americanizes
  4. Americanizing
  5. Americanless
  6. Americanly
  7. Americanness
  8. Americannesses
  9. americano
  10. Americano-
  11. Americanocentric

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