Usually means: Citizen of the United States.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. American: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. American: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. American: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. American: Collins English Dictionary
  5. american: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. American: Wiktionary
  7. American: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. American: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. American: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. American, american, the american: Dictionary.com
  11. American: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. american: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. American (Lana Del Rey song), American (album), American (cattle), American (disambiguation), American (ethnicity), American (people), American (wine), American (word), American, The American (comics), The American (disambiguation), The American (magazine), The American (novel), The American (statue), The American, The american: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. American: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. american: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. American: Rhymezone
  17. American: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. american: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. american: Free Dictionary
  20. american: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. American, american: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. American: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. AMerican, American, american: Wordnik
  24. American: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  25. American: Vocabulary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. American: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. American (US), American (USA), American (disambiguation), American: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. american: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. American, American: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. American: Glossary of Cheese Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (American)

▸ noun:  Any inhabitant of the Americas.
▸ noun:  (historical) A citizen or inhabitant of British America.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Synonym of American Indian or Native American, an indigenous inhabitant of the Americas.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, US printing, rare, dated) A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.
▸ noun:  A citizen or national of the United States of America.
▸ noun:  (informal, humorous, colloquial) The dialect of English spoken in and around the contiguous United States of America.
▸ noun:  (clipping of) American cheese.
▸ adjective:  Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.
▸ adjective:  (uncommon) Of, from, or pertaining to the Americas.
▸ adjective:  (historical) Of, from, or pertaining to British North America.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Synonym of American Indian and Native American, of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
▸ adjective:  (finance, of an option, not comparable) Able to be exercised on any date between its issue and expiry.
▸ noun:  A township in Allen County, Ohio, United States.

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American English, american language, British, European, Canadian, Australian, Mexican, America, African, Indian, more...

Opposite:
foreign, international, non-American, overseas, exotic

Types:
Native American, AfricAmerican, AsiAmerican, EuropeAmerican, Hispanic American, more...

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the american, North American, Latin American, African American, american history, more...

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inter, african, spanish, afro, anglo, pan, average, mexican, young, german, anti

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Similar:
American English, american language, British, European, Canadian, Australian, Mexican, America, African, Indian, more...

Opposite:
foreign, international, non-American, overseas, exotic

Types:
Native American, AfricAmerican, AsiAmerican, EuropeAmerican, Hispanic American, more...

Phrases:
the american, North American, Latin American, African American, american history, Native American, American Indian, American Revolution, South American, American literature, american indians, New American, more...

Adjectives:
inter, african, spanish, afro, anglo, pan, average, mexican, young, german, anti

Colors:
    red,     white,     blue,     scarlet,     crimson, more...



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