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An Americanism is a word or phrase that is typical of American English, not British English. Truck rather than , apartment rather than flat, gotten, elevator, “I guess” in the American way — those are Americanisms. meet the word in language notes marked US / UK. It can sound slightly judging if someone says “that’s an Americanism” as if it were a mistake; it is only the American habit, and it is good English in the United States. The same word can also mean a custom, or a strong love of American ways, but here it is the language sense.
美式用語、美式英語說法
組成American + -ism (“a typical way or feature”).
同家族的字
- Americanthe adjective this noun is built from
- Americanizesame stem; the verb for making something more American
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Americanismnoun/əˈmɛɹɪkənɪzm/
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A custom peculiar to the United States or the Americans.
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A word, phrase or linguistic feature originating from or specific to American English usage.
- Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns.
- A lot of other supposed Americanisms aren't Americanisms either. It's sometimes thought that "transportation" instead of the good old "transport" is an example of that annoying US habit of bolting on needless extra syllables to perfectly good words, but "transportation" is used in British English from 1540.
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A preference for the United States and the ideas it represents.
- "The most important difference between our plan and that of our opponent is that our plan will put America first," Trump said. "Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."
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CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA putative current of Catholicism in the United States identified and condemned as heretical by Rome in the late 19th century, chiefly characterized by support for secularism and American institutions above Catholic doctrine.
- Moreover, the enthusiasm with which Hecker’s ideas had been received among Catholic liberals in France served to increase Leo XIII’s suspicion that Americanism was yet another attempt, not so very different from the Gallicanisms of the past, to assert the independence of a national church from Rome.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。