Some articles on american:
... The American Prisoner is a novel written by Eden Phillpotts, published in America in 1904 and adapted into a film in 1929 ... an English woman who lives at Fox Tor farm, and an American captured during the American Revolutionary War and held at the prison at Princetown on Dartmoor ...
More definitions of "American":
- (adj): Of or relating to or characteristic of the continents and islands of the Americas.
Example: "The American hemisphere"; "American flora and fauna"
- (noun): A native or inhabitant of the United States.
- (adj): Of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture.
Example: "American citizens"; "American English"; "the American dream"
- (noun): A native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country.
Famous quotes containing the word american:
“The American people have done much for the locomotive, and the locomotive has done much for them.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)
“The American people is out to get the kaiser. We are bending every nerve and every energy towards that end; anybody who gets in the way of the great machine the energy and devotion of a hundred million patriots is building towards the stainless purpose of saving civilization from the Huns will be mashed like a fly. I’m surprised that a collegebred man like you hasn’t more sense. Don’t monkey with the buzzsaw.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The Americans are violently oral.... That’s why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all—isn’t respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)