Definition of American language

1. Noun. The English language as used in the United States.


Lexicographical Neighbors of American Language

American green toad
American hackberry
American harvest mouse
American hazel
American hellebore
American holly
American hop
American hornbeam
American hornbeams
American ivy
American jay
American jays
American kestrel
American kestrels
American lady crab
American language (current term)
American larch
American laurel
American laurels
American leishmaniasis
American licorice
American lime
American liquorice
American lobster
American lotus
American magpie
American maidenhair fern
American marten
American mastodon
American mastodont

Literary usage of American language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"THE American language. A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States. By HL Mencken, New York. ..."

2. Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Probable unity of American language ; its polysynthetic structure ; what if meant by this ; traces of it elsewhere ; other evidences of relationship. 18. ..."

3. Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Detective: And Other Stories by Mark Twain (2001)
"... CONCERNING THE American language* THERE was an Englishman in our compartment, and he complimented me on — on what? But you would never guess. ..."

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