Americannoun/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

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  A citizen or national of the United States of America.

  • Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation... is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.
  • ...the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves that their usefulness was at an end. Had they done that they would have had to abdicate. For it was not possible for them to turn themselves into mere bandits, like the American millionaires, consciously clinging to unjust privileges and beating down opposition by bribery and tear-gas bombs. After all, they belonged to a class with a certain tradition, they had been to public schools where the duty of dying for your country, if necessary, is laid down as the first and greatest of the Commandments.
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  Any inhabitant of the Americas.

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  historicalA citizen or inhabitant of British America.

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  archaicAn indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.

  • The Americans believe that all creatures have souls.
  • Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’. Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American’. ]
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  obsoleteAn inhabitant of French or Spanish New World colonies.

  • 1839, Washington Irving, 'National Nomenclature', The Knickerbocker In France, when I have announced myself as an American, I have been supposed to belong to one of the French colonies; in Spain, to be from Mexico, or Peru, or some other Spanish-American country.
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  informalThe dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America.

  • -A . Spanish ; my mother and father speak American ; my brothers and sisters speak Spanish ; when he is in the house , we speak American ; we have American prayers at night before we go to bed . Q. Is that usual in the families of the[…]
  • “Do you speak American,” then asked the lady. “Oh, naow,” he replied with a still stronger emphasis. “But wouldn't you like to learn American?" persisted the lady. “Oh, naow, thanks," answered this sturdy little patriot. […]
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  rail-transportrailwaystransportA steam locomotive of the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement.

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  datedraremediaprintingpublishingA size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.

Americanadj/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

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  Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.

  • He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
  • Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
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  Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.

  • This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.
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  historicalOf, from, or pertaining to British North America.

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  archaicOf, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.

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  businessfinanceAble to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.

  • All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.
  • Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, the American-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.

Americanname/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

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  A township in Allen County, Ohio, United States.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• American cheese
• American cockroach