Americanism Synonyms

ə-mĕrĭ-kə-nĭzəm
Attachment to America as a place or a way of life
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. chauvinism
  2. patriotism
  3. nationalism
  4. provincialism
  5. isolationism
  6. flag-waving
  7. jingoism
  8. America for Americans
  9. America first
  10. frenchism
  11. gallicism
  12. irishism
  13. scotticism
Anything thought of as characteristic of the United States
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mannerism
  2. habit
  3. custom
  4. trick of speech
  5. American slang
  6. yankeeism
  7. free-enterprise
  8. spirit of '76
  9. briticism
  10. hibernicism

Americanism Sentence Examples

  • It might be called "English Traits and American Confessions," for nowhere does Emerson's Americanism come out more strongly.

  • Despite, however, its heavy foreign admixture the old Americanism of the city remains strikingly predominant.

  • The Irish and American bishops he summoned to Rome to confer with him on the subjects of Home Rule and of "Americanism" respectively.

  • In the state campaign of 1859 he made a speech attacking the Fugitive Slave Law and arguing for state's rights and thus injured his political standing in Wisconsin; and in April he delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, an oration on "True Americanism," which coming from an alien was intended to clear the Republican party of the charge of "nativism."

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