Usanian
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
USA + -an + -ian, parallel to Panamanian, etc.; or Usania + -an
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Usanian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
- 1947, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, volume 13, page 41:
- In addition to a detailed analysis of the growth of 5 USAnian cities of metropolitan proportians—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles— […]
- 1965, Keston College, editor, Frontier, volume 17, page 27:
- The fundamental principle of this fundamental Usanian document is that the sovereign citizens of separate governments establish a federal government.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Usanian.
Noun[edit]
Usanian (plural Usanians)
- An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
- 1945, Charles Grey Grey, The civil air war, page 116:
- I remember Juan Trippe arriving at Croydon from Paris in a Handley Page Hercules, at which that great pseudo-Usanian Cy Caldwell had thrown the jeer that it embodied “ built-in head winds.”
- 2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems, page 342:
- Like Usanians in the last half of the 20c, Japanese in the middle part of the Tokugawa Era often exhibited a smug sense of superiority vis-à-vis foreign countries
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Usanian.