| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Make American in character; "The year in the US has completely Americanized him".[Wordnet]
2. Become American in character; "After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized".[Wordnet] 3. To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.[Websters] 4. Base verb from the following inflections: americanizing, americanized, Americanizes, americanizer, americanizers, americanizingly and americanizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | Top | |
"Americanize" is a common misspelling or typo for: Americanized, americanizer, Americanizes. |
Date "Americanize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Note: Americanize \A*mer"i*can*ize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Americanizer; present participle verb or noun Americanizing.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: Americanize
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Technology | To convert to American English the style and spelling of a work written in (or translated into) British English. Compare with briticize. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
