Americanist
- noun
- /əˈmɛrɪkənɪst/
:
americanista
- Foreign Americanists are generally U.S.-trained and largely, though hardly exclusively, dependent on U.S. facilities and support.
- Latin Americanists
- U.S. Americanists
- American Americanists
Examples
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All this makes it possible for Chinese Americanists to communicate electronically with their colleagues across the world.
Academic text (1997) -
For example, USIA funding in particular circumstances limits the ability of Americanists to organize themselves internationally.
Academic text (1993) -
Besides, there are certain risks in being an Americanist in Japan.
Academic text (1994) -
Also, it is important to have more exchanges among Americanists in the world.
Academic text (1994) -
It's the business of U.S. Americanists to study ourselves at home and, nowadays, abroad.
Academic text (1998) -
All the more reason why, as an Americanist, I am fascinated by this "discourse on Europe."
Academic text (1998) -
Perhaps this is because most academic theorizing is done by Americanists who are not, themselves, Native Americans.
Academic text (1998) -
The main protagonists I have in mind are U.S. academic Americanists, their sponsors, and their associates abroad.
Academic text (1993) -
For many United States Americanists, the possibility of doing comparative work is a welcome corrective to our parochialism.
Academic text (1998) -
As an Americanist, she believes it is essential to promote American values worldwide.
Synonyms
Supporting the United States and its policies
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Americanist is formed from America and the ending -ist, and -ist can mean 'a person who supports' as well as one who studies; think of words like nationalist. So an Americanist can also mean a person who supports or studies 'Americanism', the spread or influence of American culture and ideas.
