américain

See also: Américain

French

Etymology

See Américain

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.me.ʁi.kɛ̃/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛ̃

Adjective

américain (feminine américaine, masculine plural américains, feminine plural américaines)

  1. (relational) of America; American
    • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 108; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
      Et pourtant São Paulo ne m’a jamais paru laide : c’était une ville sauvage comme le sont toutes les villes américaines, à l’exception peut-être de Washington, D.C., [...]
      And yet I never thought that São Paulo was ugly: it was a ‘wild’ town, as are all American towns, with the possible exception of Washington, D.C., [...]

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Noun

américain m (plural américains)

  1. sandwich, generally with ham or pork, and French fries

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