americaness
/əˈmɛɹəkənəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A female American.
Example Sentences
- "There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past."
- "Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]"
- "The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]"
- "With such expectations, then, every true American and Americaness was expected to be at his or her post, for the solemn occasion."
- "There was, at the Leek, in the way of literature, aBradshaw, a work (selling sixty thousand daily, it said) of one of those Americanesses who have struggled in at the gate of the heaven of popularity before it could be shut after Mrs. Beecher Stowe"
- "This woman is like most Americanesses - she hates walking."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈmɛɹəkənəs/
- British English: /əˈmɛɹɪkənəs/