American language
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- noun
- /əˈmɛrɪkən ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
- US
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inglés americano
- In her acceptance speech Wednesday, Erdrich began by speaking in her Native American language in recognition of Native people watching, before switching to English.
And then their lingo, it was so different from like American language.
- And then their lingo, it was so different from like American language.
Examples
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"American language," Kwan answers.
Fiction book (1996) -
The future of the American language didn't interest him, as it did Williams; his close attention was turned toward ransacking cultural treasures from China to Provence.
Academic text (2007) -
Thus, "leader of the free world" came to infect American language and thinking.
Academic text (1999) -
It's an extinct Latin American language.
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So while my friends spent their days at Missoula Elementary, I stayed home and learned to write the American language.
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The word "striptease" was introduced into the American language in 1928.
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I believe this style, which does not belong to Hammett or to anybody, but is the American language (and not even exclusively that anymore), can say things he did not know how to say or feel the need of saying.
Academic text (2005) -
How would elementary music education have developed in the U.S. if we had used the adopted philosophies as guideposts but drawn our methods and materials from American language, music, and educational contexts?
Academic text (2005) -
In his study, Gustafson draws on a wide range of disciplines, including politics, linguistics, literature, history, rhetoric, and law, as he attempts to establish a context for understanding the evolution of the American language.
Academic text (1993) -
Many idiomatic expressions have become a standard part of the American language over the years.
Synonyms
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The form of English spoken and written in the United States
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English spoken and written in the United States with its own words, spelling, and accents
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the English language as spoken in the United States' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'American' (relating to the United States) with 'language' (a system of communication). Although the more usual collocation is 'American English', the compositional logic is clear and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
American language comes from the idea that the English spoken in the United States changed over time into its own form. Early settlers and immigrants mixed 'English' with words from other languages and new things, so the American version of the language became different from British English, and today American language means the English used in the United States.