Americana
- noun
- /əˌmɛrɪˈkɑːnə/
- The museum's exhibit featured various pieces of Americana, including vintage baseball cards and classic diner signs.
- piece of Americana
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Watch on YouTubeSo he's zooming in and out of these Norman Rockwell type photos of Americana of farm life.
- So he's zooming in and out of these Norman Rockwell type photos of Americana of farm life.
- There's, you know, it's just this, it's this old school sort of Americana thing.
- But it's such a deeply American story and I feel like this adds to the catalog of Americana.
- Other artists trying to define America, Americana, this concept in a in a way that we didn't before as much.
Examples
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Now, right up here I've got some marvelous old things, real early Americana.
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Collectors of Americana sought out Steven Hale or Rachel Goodson.
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And do you collect Americana?
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Yeah, it was a regular slice of Americana.
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That submarine ride is a piece of Americana.
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An hour later, we were looking at a pile of Americana that nearly reached the ceiling.
Fiction book (1996) -
For this prime piece of antique Americana, I hear thirty!
Fiction book (1997) -
"I love rooms decorated with touches of Americana, or just her colors.
Blog text (16) -
So we have people coming over, we got brats and potato salad and all Americana today.
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In Tokyo, you can find many examples of Americana, ranging from McDonald's to Disneyworld.
Academic text (1998)
Compounds
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A tall North American plant with white flowers whose young shoots people cook but whose berries and roots are poisonous
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A small wild animal like a weasel, native to North America with soft brown fur
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A shrub from eastern North America that produces edible hazelnuts
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A North American vine that climbs and has purple-brown flowers and edible underground roots
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A large spiky plant that blooms once after many years and then dies
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A fast animal with hooves like an antelope that lives on western North American plains and has forked horns
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A small silvery fish from eastern United States rivers called white perch that people eat and catch for sport
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A North American plant that grows in clumps with spotted leaves and small flowers on stems
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A large reddish-brown cockroach from the southern United States now found worldwide
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A tropical bush with strong, sweet-smelling yellow-white flowers that open at night
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A plant with long spikes of blue or white bell-shaped flowers that grows in eastern North America
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A plant that lives one year with purple flower heads and basket-like leaves below them
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A small brown North American bird that climbs tree trunks to find insects
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A tall plant from the woods of eastern North America with spikes of white flowers
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A medium duck whose male has a white crown and a green patch by the eye
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A diving duck from North America with a grey and black body and a reddish brown head
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A medium-sized water bird in North America with dark feathers and a white bill
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A disease that causes sores on the skin and on the mouth or nose
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A North American form of the twinflower that is a low creeping plant with two small bell-shaped flowers
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A tropical tree from the Caribbean and northern South America that has fruit the size of an orange
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A rare North American crane with white and black feathers and a loud trumpet call called the whooping crane
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A large stork with a long curved bill that wades in warm American wetlands
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A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America that has red-orange fruit with yellow inside
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A small forest plant with thick leaves and clusters of white flowers
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A small evergreen plant with round thick leaves and white flowers native to eastern North America
A large South American bird like an ostrich that runs fast, cannot fly, and has three toes
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A small North American bird with blue-grey feathers and a yellow throat and chest
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A small tree with divided leaves and clusters of bright red berries from eastern North America
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A low spreading plant with dense light purple flowers that grows near streams in western North America and northeastern Asia
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Etymology
Americana comes from American plus the ending -ana, which means 'things connected with' or 'about'. So Americana refers to objects and art that are connected with American life and culture.