american

«american» in Mova's school dictionary: From or about the United States of America: American… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (American); noun (an American, Americans)

meaning for a pupil

1) From or about the United States of America: American food, an American city. tree →

2) A person from the United States. tree →

3) From or about the Americas as a whole (North, Central and South America), as in the American continents or Native American peoples. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and history, American usually means of the USA, which has 50 states and the capital Washington, D.C. In language lessons, American English differs from British English in some words and spellings: color/colour, sidewalk/pavement, fall/autumn, sneakers/trainers. Phrases: "American English", "Native American", "North American", "Latin American", "an American football game".

examples

• My cousin is American; she lives in Texas. tree →
• American football is different from soccer. tree →
• In American English you write "color"; in British English, "colour". tree →
• The bald eagle is the national bird of the USA, an American symbol. tree →
• Native Americans lived in America long before Europeans came. tree →
• We watched an American film about a dog. tree →
• Canada is also in North America. tree →
• The American flag has 50 stars, one for each state. tree →
• (18) A North American Indian story. tree →

note

Always written with a capital A: American, not "american" (the entry word is lower case only because of the list). Use "an": an American. Careful: "America" often means the USA, but the Americas are two whole continents, and Canadians and Mexicans are North Americans too, so they may not like being called simply "American".

In the corpora

• A CV is a page or two listing someone's education, jobs and skills; Americans call it a résumé.
• Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings like "colour" and "color".
• American alligators live in swamps, rivers and lakes in the south-eastern USA and recovered from being endangered once hunting was controlled.
• Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years.
• The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «american» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.