"AmE" meaning in All languages combined

See AmE on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} AmE
  1. (linguistics) Abbreviation of American English. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: American English Categories (topical): Linguistics Related terms: SAE (english: Standard American), BrE, NZE
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "AmE",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "American English"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xiii:",
          "text": "The authors, between them, have decades of experience teaching this material in Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Although the two great dialect clusters of English – British and Australasian (BrE) and North American (AmE) – do differ syntactically in a few minor ways, the differences are almost always a matter of preferences rather than prohibitions, and they give rise to remarkably few difficulties for exposition.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abbreviation of American English."
      ],
      "id": "en-AmE-en-name-8rgbOJ9Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "American English",
          "American English#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) Abbreviation of American English."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "Standard American",
          "word": "SAE"
        },
        {
          "word": "BrE"
        },
        {
          "word": "NZE"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "AmE"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "AmE",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "Standard American",
      "word": "SAE"
    },
    {
      "word": "BrE"
    },
    {
      "word": "NZE"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "American English"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English abbreviations",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xiii:",
          "text": "The authors, between them, have decades of experience teaching this material in Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Although the two great dialect clusters of English – British and Australasian (BrE) and North American (AmE) – do differ syntactically in a few minor ways, the differences are almost always a matter of preferences rather than prohibitions, and they give rise to remarkably few difficulties for exposition.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abbreviation of American English."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "American English",
          "American English#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) Abbreviation of American English."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "AmE"
}

Download raw JSONL data for AmE meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.