Americanize

See also: americanize

English

Alternative forms

• Americanise

Etymology

American +‎ -ize; first attested in 1797.

Pronunciation

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Verb

Americanize (third-person singular simple present Americanizes, present participle Americanizing, simple past and past participle Americanized)

1. (US, Canada) To render American; to adapt to the custom, culture, or style of the United States of America.
2. (US, Canada) To localize a medium for sale or use in the United States.

Antonyms

• de-Americanize
• un-Americanize

Related terms

• Americanization
• Americanism

Translations

to make American

• Arabic: أَمْرَكَ (ʔamraka)

  Egyptian Arabic: يأمرك m (yeʔámrek), تأمرك f (teʔámrek), يأمركو pl (yeʔamréku)

• Belarusian: амерыканізава́ць impf or pf (amjerykanizavácʹ), амерыканізі́раваць impf or pf (amjerykanizíravacʹ)
• Bulgarian: американизи́рам (bg) impf or pf (amerikanizíram)
• Catalan: americanitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美國化／美国化 (měiguóhuà), 美語用法／美语用法 (měiyǔ yòngfǎ) (linguistically)

• Czech: amerikanizovat impf or pf
• Danish: amerikanisere
• Dutch: amerikaniseren (nl)
• Esperanto: usonigi
• Estonian: amerikaniseerima
• Finnish: amerikkalaistaa
• French: américaniser (fr)
• Galician: americanizar
• German: amerikanisieren (de)
• Greek: αμερικανοποιώ (el) (amerikanopoió)
• Hungarian: amerikanizál (hu)
• Italian: americanizzare (it)
• Japanese: アメリカ風にする (Amerikafū ni suru), アメリカナイズする (amerikanaizu suru), 米国化する (べいこくかする, beikokuka suru)
• Korean: 미국화하다 (migukhwahada)
• Macedonian: американизи́ра impf or pf (amerikanizíra)
• Malay: amerikakan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: amerikanisere (no)

• Polish: amerykanizować (pl) impf, zamerykanizować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: americanizar (pt)
• Romanian: a americaniza (ro)
• Russian: американизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (amerikanizírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: американизи́рати impf or pf

  Roman: amerikanizírati (sh) impf or pf

• Slovak: amerikanizovať impf or pf
• Slovene: amerikanizirati impf or pf
• Spanish: americanizar (es)
• Swedish: amerikanisera (sv)
• Ukrainian: американізува́ти impf or pf (amerykanizuváty)
• Vietnamese: Mỹ hóa, Mỹ hoá, Mĩ hoá
• Yiddish: אַמעריקאַניזירן (amerikanizirn)