American

a-mer′ik-an, adj. pertaining to America, esp. to the United States.— n. a native of America.— v.t. Amer′icanise , to render American.— n. Amer′icanism , a custom, characteristic, word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Americans: condition of being an American citizen: devotion to American institutions. [From America , so called unfairly from Amerigo Vespucci, a navigator who explored a small part of South America seven years after the first voyage of Columbus.]