north american

Questions about north american

What does north american mean?

north american means "a native or inhabitant of North America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is north american a common word?

north american 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.