Crossword-Solution: AMERICAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| American | a. | Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. |
| American | a. | Of or pertaining to the United States. |
| American | n. | A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AMERICAN | anagram | CINERAMA, INCAMERA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AMERICAN (5)
Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary.
Hiawatha’s Departure Vocabulary Introductory Note The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Such of late _Columbus_ found th’ _American_ to girt With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde Among the Trees on Iles and woodie Shores.
After much deliberation, however, he consented to make a trial; and ever since that period, he has acted as a lecturing agent, under the auspices either of the American or the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I recollect aright, a bunch of intermingled thunderbolts and barbed arrows in each claw.
Quotes with AMERICAN (3)
The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.
Won't reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something we feel but cannot say - that American propserity was ill-gotten and selective in its distribution. What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts. What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt.
The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in their craw, is the unacknowledged fact that America has never been an especially capitalist country. The postal system, the land grant provision for public education, the national park system, the Homestead Act, the graduated income tax, the Social Security system, the G.I. Bill -- all of these were and are massive distributions or redistributions of wealth meant to benefit the population at large.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 99 times in crossword archives (1943–2023).