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American, n.

the English language as used in the United States
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American American English American language

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derivationally related form

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English, English language

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African American Vernacular English, AAVE, African American English, Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics

a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country
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American

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North America Central America South America

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inhabitant, dweller, habitant, denizen, indweller

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Creole Latin American, Latino North American South American Mesoamerican West Indian

a native or inhabitant of the United States
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American

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American Americanize

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United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.

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inhabitant, dweller, habitant, denizen, indweller

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Asian American Creole Anglo-American Alabaman, Alabamian Alaskan Arizonan, Arizonian Arkansan, Arkansawyer Bay Stater Bostonian Californian Carolinian Coloradan Connecticuter Delawarean, Delawarian Floridian Franco-American German American Georgian Hawaiian Idahoan Illinoisan Indianan, Hoosier Iowan Kansan Kentuckian, Bluegrass Stater Louisianan, Louisianian Mainer, Down Easter Marylander Michigander, Wolverine Minnesotan, Gopher Mississippian Missourian Montanan Nebraskan, Cornhusker Nevadan New Hampshirite, Granite Stater New Jerseyan, New Jerseyite, Garden Stater New Mexican New Yorker North Carolinian, Tarheel North Dakotan Ohioan, Buckeye Oklahoman, Sooner Oregonian, Beaver Pennsylvanian, Keystone Stater Rhode Islander South Carolinian South Dakotan Tennessean, Volunteer Texan Utahan Vermonter Virginian Washingtonian Washingtonian West Virginian Wisconsinite, Badger Wyomingite Puerto Rican Yankee, Yank, Yankee-Doodle Appalachian New Englander, Yankee Nisei Southerner Spanish American, Hispanic American, Hispanic Tory Yankee, Yank, Northerner