americanise

1. 1.

   make American in character

   “The year in the US has completely Americanized him”

   SynonymsAmericanize

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2. 2.

   become American in character

   “After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized”

   SynonymsAmericanize

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Other forms of americanise

past tense

americanised·

present participle

americanising·

third person

americanises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about americanise

What does americanise mean?

americanise means "make American in character". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in americanise?

americanise has 5 syllables: a-me-ri-ca-nise. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for americanise?

Close synonyms include Americanize, Americanize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is americanise a common word?

americanise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.