Americanly

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adverb

In an American manner; in a way characteristic of Americans.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbAmericanly (comparative more Americanly, superlative most Americanly)

comparative more Americanly · superlative most Americanly

  1. In an American manner; in a way characteristic of Americans.

    They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental.

    1913, William Dean Howells, Familiar Spanish Travels
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    Once all experience is finally reduced to marketable image, once the receiving user of user-friendly receivers can break from the coffle and choose freely, Americanly, from an Americanly infinite variety of moving images hardly distinguishable from real-life images, and can then choose further just how he wishes to store, enhance, edit, recombine, and present those images to himself in the privacy of his very own home and skull, then TV's ironic, totalitarian grip on the American psychic cojones will be broken.!!!

    1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN

Origin

Translations

Portuguese americanamente
  • americanamentein a way characteristic of Americans
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APA

Americanly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Americanly

MLA

“Americanly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Americanly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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