Definition of Americanize

1. Verb. Make American in character. "The year in the US has completely Americanized him"

Exact synonyms: Americanise
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"
Exact synonyms: Americanise
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

Americanese
Americanisation
Americanisations
Americanise
Americanised
Americanises
Americanising
Americanism
Americanisms
Americanist
Americanistically
Americanists
Americanitis
Americanization
Americanizations
Americanize
Americanized
Americanizer
Americanizers
Americanizes
Americanizing
Americanness
Americanocentric
Americanophobia
Americans
Americas
Americentric
Americo-
Americophile
Americophiles

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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