All-Americanadj

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  hobbieslifestylesportsOf a person or a team, or some other thing: regarded as the best in the United States; of a team, composed entirely of members who are each the best from their state, league, or region.

  • He was an All-American basketball player last year.
  • After having conducted a country-wide poll of experts, Vanity Fair has chosen a truly All-American Collegiate Basketball Team. The nine picked is the result of the combined opinions of sporting editors, college coaches, graduate managers and old players from Cambridge, to Palo Alto and from Minneapolis to Atlanta.
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  governmentmilitarypoliticsOf a regiment or division: composed of members from every state in the Union.

All-Americannoun

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  hobbieslifestylesportsA person or a team, or some other thing, regarded as the best in the United States; a team composed entirely of members who are each the best from their state, league, or region.

  • [Bennie] Oosterbaan won letters in football, basketball, and baseball, and was selected as an All-American end for three successive years.
  • Among the players he [Ward Lambert] coached were the legendary John Wooden, a three-time All-American; three-time All-American Charles "Stretch" Murphy; and All-Americans Don White, Ray "Candy" Miller, George Spradling, Norm Cotton, Emmett Lowery, Robert Kessler, Jewell Young, and Paul Hoffman.

all-Americanadj/ˌɔːl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

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  Comprising things that are wholly from the United States of America; completely made in the United States.

  • "All-American" Transformers. Perfected first, from the stand-point of correct engineering, by proper turns radio, impedance and shielding—then, in our latest models, given the finishing touches of outward beauty that the more critical eye demanded. […] Your dealer has "All-American" Transformers.
  • The DC-10 with a GE engine would be wrongfully touted as an all-American airplane. The GE engine was part French. The DC-10 had Italian fuselage sections. There was little awareness of the subcontracts with offshore suppliers.
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  Regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States; typically American; (specifically) of a person: courageous, heroic; honest, wholesome, etc.

  • The [Davy] Crockett revival of the 1950's engineered by Walt Disney presented an all-American boy scout type as a mass-culture hero.
  • Amelia [Earhart] looked the part of an all-American girl—pretty, confident yet slightly demure, exhibiting not a trace of brashness.

all-Americannoun/ˌɔːl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

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  A person or thing regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States of America; typically American; (specifically) a person from the United States who is courageous, heroic, honest, wholesome, etc.

  • He was regarded by the other soldiers as an all-American for his courage in battle.
  • When asked whether Gap, Inc. would still gain acceptance as an "all-American" if its brand manufacturing process was switched significantly abroad, given its customer loyalty and the reputation that it has already established, respondents said the brand would probably no longer be seen as all-American, which would be detrimental to the brand since it still has a stronger presence in the American market than its overseas market.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• All-American athlete
• player
• team