Dictionary:

Americanism

  (ə-mĕr'ĭ-kə-nĭz'əm)

1. A custom, trait, or tradition originating in the United States.
2. A word, phrase, or idiom characteristic of English as it is spoken in the United States.
3. Allegiance to the United States and its customs and institutions.

The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: loyalty to the USA and its institutions

Meaning #2: an expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans

Meaning #3: a custom that is peculiar to the United States or its citizens

The noun Americanism may refer to:

The Americas

• Particular to or characteristic of the Americas (South, Central, North) - the continents and nations of the Western Hemisphere.

• See also: American (word) and Americas (terminology).

The United States of America

• Americanism (heresy) - heresies defined in the 19th century by Roman Catholic popes Leo XIII and Pius IX, about civil liberties in the United States such as freedom of the press and separation of church and state

• See also: 1864 Syllabus of Errors and 1899 Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae.

• Americanism (general) - word or phrase considered typical of how people in the United States speak.

• See also: American English.

• An attitude or conviction which gives special importance to the nation or culture of the United States.

• See also: American exceptionalism and Anti-Americanism.

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