Usanian
nounEtymology USA + -an + -ian, parallel to Panamanian, etc.; or Usania + -an
1
An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
- 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.”1945, Charles Grey Grey, The civil air war, page 116:
- 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 countries2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems, page 342:
- Synonyms
- American, US-American, Usonian, United Statesian, US-ian, Usonan
- Related terms
- Usania, Usonian, Usonan