American
American(s) may refer to:
- A person or attribute of one of the nations of the Americas
- Americans, citizens or attributes of or from the United States of America
- See also: Citizenship in the United States, Names for United States citizens
- The indigenous peoples of the Americas
- A person of American ethnicity
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Famous quotes containing the word american:
“... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, nor her brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.”
—Frances Trollope (1780–1863)
“The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
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—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)