Meanings
- uncountableA fear or dislike of the United States of America or its culture.
1 more example
1990: [Henry] James's internalised Americophobia led him to sound rather like Shaw's Professor Higgins as he lamented the indifference of the American people to the beauties of their language. — Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature, Mulvey, Christopher, Cambridge University Press, p133
Synonyms: Americanophobia · Antonyms: Americophilia, Americanophilia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA fear or dislike of the United States of America or its culture.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 反美
- 反美 (fǎn-Měi)a fear of the United States of America and/or its culture
French américanophobie, antiaméricanisme
- américanophobiea fear of the United States of America and/or its culture
- antiaméricanismea fear of the United States of America and/or its culture
Japanese 反米
- 反米 (han-Bei)a fear of the United States of America and/or its culture
Polish amerykanofobia
- amerykanofobiaa fear of the United States of America and/or its culture
Portuguese americanofobia
- americanofobiaa fear of the United States of America and/or its culture
Russian антиамерикани́зм, америкофо́бия
- антиамерикани́зм (antiamerikanízm)a fear of the United States of America and/or its culture
- америкофо́бия (amerikofóbija)a fear of the United States of America and/or its culture
Cite this entry
Americophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Americophobia
“Americophobia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Americophobia. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Americophobia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Americophobia.
Source: Americophobia on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.