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Definition of Americanisation
1. Noun. Assimilation into American culture.
Generic synonyms: Absorption, Assimilation
Derivative terms: Americanise, Americanise, Americanize, Americanize
Definition of Americanisation
1. Noun. (British) The process of Americanising. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Americanisation
Literary usage of Americanisation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americanization of the World, Or, The Trend of the Twentieth Century by William Thomas Stead (1902)
"THE americanisation of the world is a phrase which excites, quite needlessly,
some resentment in Great Britain. It is even regarded as an affront to England ..."
2. Canada To-day by John Atkinson Hobson (1906)
"CHAPTER VI THE americanisation OF CANADA IN the St. James's Club, at Montreal,
or the Rideau, at Ottawa, and still more prevalent in Toronto, ..."
3. What I Saw in America by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1922)
"They have called down the punishment of the americanisation of England. ...
In that sense such americanisation as there is is very superficial. ..."
4. The Nation at War by James Augustin Brown Scherer (1918)
"In states with a considerable population of foreign origin, the State Councils
of Defense are leaders in the work of americanisation, establishing war ..."
5. Leadership of the New America: Racial and Religious by Archibald McClure (1916)
"To show his interest in americanisation, he prepared a pamphlet on American civics
and history in both English and Slovenian; and to show the response of ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... with the German Government had been useful in protecting the German companies
from the dangers of americanisation—surely a weighty argument in favour of ..."
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