Usonianism

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noun

A custom, idea, or practice peculiar to the United States.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounUsonianism (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableA custom, idea, or practice peculiar to the United States.

    That Ulibarri sees the Ecuadorean Indian as too burdened by a tradition of dehumanizing servitude is perhaps more revealing of his deep-seated Usonianism than of the Indians' real character.

    1995, Bruce-Novoa, “Through the Eye of the Condor: The Limitless Horizons of Literary Space”, in María Duke dos Santos, Patricia De la Fuente, editors, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, page 98

    Synonyms: Americanism

  2. rareuncountableA preference for the US and the ideas it represents.

    Already in the early process of developing a Usonian nationalist ideology, or Usonianism, […]

    2003, José F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean, page 22
  3. rareuncountableThe philosophical ideal of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian architecture.

    Architect Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered Usonianism as the path to affordable modern residential architecture.

    ca 2008, Colorado Historical Society, Nomination of the Nelson House to the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties
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    Broadacres was the ultimate landscape combining the best of the cities and the country, organicism, decentralization and usonianism.

    1979, American Society for Environmental History, Environmental Review, page 21

    "Usonianism," an architectural style that articulated Frank Lloyd Wright's social and economic principles of "usonian democracy," […]

    2002, April 15, “Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usonianism" Will Be Explored in Talk Sponsored by UB Art History Department”, in NewsCenter, State University of New York at Buffalo

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA custom, idea, or practice peculiar to the United States.

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