say it: uh-MER-i-kuh-niz-uhm
americanism is a noun meaning "loyalty to the United States and its institutions". It carries 3 recorded senses.
loyalty to the United States and its institutions
an expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans
a custom that is peculiar to the United States or its citizens
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for americanism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.