Noun

Singular American

Plural Americans

American (plural Americans)

1. A person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United States of America.

   She went from Mexico to the USA before she gave birth, so her child would be an American.

2. An inhabitant of the Americas. More often this is specified as either North American, Central American or South American.

Derived terms

• Central American
• North American
• South American

Proper noun

Singular American

Plural -

American

1. The English language as spoken in the USA; American English.
   • 1942, We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us in American. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 756)

American

American(s) may refer to:

• A person or attribute of one of the nations of the Americas
• A citizen or attribute of or from the United States
  • See also: People of the United States, Citizenship in the United States, Names for U.S. citizens
• A person considered to be ethnically American (see American ethnicity)
• The indigenous peoples of the Americas

This article is for quotes about the United States of America, also known as the USA and the U.S.

Contents

• 1 By native Americans
• 2 By naturalized Americans
• 3 By non-Americans
• 4 See also
• 5 External links

By native Americans

• "America - where even the son of a President can grow up to be President."
  • Jacob Appel, Arborophilia, 2005

• "America - a conservative country without any conservative ideology-appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America.
  • C. Wright Mills , The Power Elite,1956

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