From American + -ize; first attested in 1797.
Americanize (third-person singular simple present Americanizes, present participle Americanizing, simple past and past participle Americanized)
- (US, Canada) To render American; to adapt to the custom, culture, or style of the United States of America.
- (US, Canada) To localize a medium for sale or use in the United States.
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)
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