"Americanist" meaning in English

See Americanist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more Americanist [comparative], most Americanist [superlative]
Etymology: From American + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|American|ist}} American + -ist Head templates: {{en-adj}} Americanist (comparative more Americanist, superlative most Americanist)
  1. Favoring the values of the USA.
    Sense id: en-Americanist-en-adj-Pnid2Hby Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 25 23 6 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 33 24 28 4 11
  2. (phonetics) Of or relating to a phonetic notation developed for transcription of Native American and European languages. See Americanist phonetic notation.
    Sense id: en-Americanist-en-adj-7W5OCBRT Categories (other): Phonetics, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, People, Scientists Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 25 23 6 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 33 24 28 4 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 34 21 4 16 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 30 20 5 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 38 21 2 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 22 42 19 4 14 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 21 42 18 4 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 20 45 17 3 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 18 44 17 6 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 20 45 17 4 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 20 40 17 8 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 20 38 20 9 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 19 51 16 2 13 Disambiguation of People: 22 35 28 0 15 Disambiguation of Scientists: 16 55 14 1 14 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences

Noun

Forms: Americanists [plural]
Etymology: From American + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|American|ist}} American + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} Americanist (plural Americanists)
  1. Somebody who favors the values of the USA.
    Sense id: en-Americanist-en-noun-y4kaJepL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 25 23 6 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 33 24 28 4 11
  2. An expert in the study of America. Translations (expert in the study of America): amerikanist [masculine] (Dutch), Amerikanist [masculine] (German), Amerikanistin [feminine] (German), αμερικανιστής (amerikanistís) [masculine] (Greek), αμερικανίστρια (amerikanístria) [feminine] (Greek), amerikanista (Hungarian), americanista [feminine, masculine] (Italian), amerykanista [masculine] (Polish), amerykanistka [feminine] (Polish), americanista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), americanista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Americanist-en-noun-a3CC4LdL Disambiguation of 'expert in the study of America': 3 97 1
  3. (phonetics) A proponent of the Americanist phonetic notation. Related terms: Americanism, Latin Americanist
    Sense id: en-Americanist-en-noun-vRWK6lEP Categories (other): Phonetics, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 25 23 6 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 33 24 28 4 11 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). 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.