Americanism

Definition

A custom peculiar to the United States or the Americans.

Etymology

From American + -ism.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "There has been much spluttering about the prince’s use of ‘Americanisms’ in a letter to Emmanuel Macron, but the truth is more complicated […] So, where do we get the idea that -ize is an Americanism?"