Usanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ËŒjuːˈseɪniÉ™n/

Alternative forms

• USAnian, USA-nian, US-anian

Origin

USA + -an + -ian, parallel to Panamanian, etc.; or Usania + -an

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
• 1947, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, In addition to a detailed analysis of the growth of 5 USAnian cities of metropolitan proportians—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles— ...
• 1965, Frontier, The fundamental principle of this fundamental Usanian document is that the sovereign citizens of separate governments establish a federal government.

Full definition of Usanian

Noun

1. An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
• 1945, Charles Grey Grey, The civil air war‎, I remember Juan Trippe arriving at Croydon from Paris in a Handley Page Hercules, at which that great pseudo-Usanian Cy Caldwell had thrown the jeer that it embodied “ built-in head winds.”
• 2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems, Like Usanians in the last half of the 20c, Japanese in the middle part of the Tokugawa Era often exhibited a smug sense of superiority vis-à-vis foreign countries

Synonyms

• American, US American, Usonian, United Statesian, US-ian, Usonan

Related terms

• Usania (perhaps a backformation)