US-ian
See also: USian
English
Alternative forms
- USian, U.S.-ian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌjuːˈɛsi.ən/[1]
Adjective
US-ian (not comparable)
- (rare) Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
- 1944, Frieda Meredith Dietz, editor, The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 6, page 157:
- Let us be urged to make our homes in Latin America, establishing US-ian colonies even as our present enemies entrenched themselves there.
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Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:US-ian.
Derived terms
- U.S.iana
Noun
US-ian (plural US-ians)
- (rare) An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
- 1998, Stephen Garrard Post & Peter J. Whitehouse, Genetic testing for Alzheimer disease: ethical and clinical issues, 2nd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 266:
- The belief that there is a culture to which a majority of (European-American) USians belong, called "white culture," is a local cultural construction, one powereful enough to influence science and society
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Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:US-ian.
Usage notes
A sporadic nonce term. The hyphen tends to be used as an attributive, but as a substantive.
The similar-looking Usian (/ˈjuːʒən/), which differs only in capitalization, is a separate word, one that never got beyond the proposal stage.[2]
Synonyms
References
- Martin Heusser & Gudrun Grabher, American foundational myths:Papers from the 2000 joint conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies and the Austrian Association for American Studies. 2002:70.
- Roger John Williams, The human frontier, 1946:298
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