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Definition of Americanize
1. Verb. Make American in character. "The year in the US has completely Americanized him"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Americanisation, American, American, Americanization
2. Verb. Become American in character. "After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized"
Generic synonyms: Change
Derivative terms: Americanisation, American, Americanization
Definition of Americanize
1. v. t. To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
Definition of Americanize
1. Verb. (American spelling) To make American, as to custom, culture, or style of the United States of America. ¹
2. Verb. (American spelling) To localize a medium for sale or use in the United States. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Americanize
Literary usage of Americanize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Kansas Crusade, Its Friends and Its Foes by Eli Thayer, Edward Everett Hale (1889)
"And these questions are: First, Do we wish to americanize Central America?
Secondly, Can we americanize Central America? Thirdly, Shall we americanize ..."
2. America and the New Era: A Symposium on Social Reconstruction by Elisha Michael Friedman (1920)
"Not the School Alone But All American Life Must americanize. —Unless we start
with a clear understanding of conditions we are not prepared to discuss the ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... To americanize. To render American; to naturalize in America. — Webster. '
Americanization. The act of rendering American, or of subjection to the laws ..."
4. Asia at the Door by Kiyoshi K. Kawakami (1914)
"Ill CAN WE americanize THEM? NO nation, perhaps, has turned to environment so
sensitive a front as the Japanese. Its history of twenty-five centuries is a ..."
5. What America Means to Me: A Book of the People, by the People, for the by Henry Ezekiel Jackson (1920)
"americanize YOURSELF Does this proposed plan mean that all the young men and
women of a community, both native-born and resident alien, shall take the same ..."
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