English

Alternative forms

• USian, U.S.-ian

Adjective

US-ian ‎(not comparable)

1. (rare) Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
   • 1944, Frieda Meredith Dietz, editor, The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 6, page 157:

     Let us be urged to make our homes in Latin America, establishing US-ian colonies even as our present enemies entrenched themselves there.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:US-ian.

Derived terms

• U.S.iana

Noun

US-ian ‎(plural US-ians)

1. (rare) An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
   • 1998, Stephen Garrard Post & Peter J. Whitehouse, Genetic testing for Alzheimer disease: ethical and clinical issues‎, 2nd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 266:

     The belief that there is a culture to which a majority of (European-American) USians belong, called "white culture," is a local cultural construction, one powereful enough to influence science and society

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:US-ian.

Usage notes

A sporadic nonce term. The hyphen tends to be used as an attributive, but as a substantive.

The similar-looking Usian (/ˈjuːʒən/), which differs only in capitalization, is a separate word, one that never got beyond the proposal stage.^[2]

Synonyms

• American, United Statesian, US American, Usanian, Usonian

References

1. ↑ Martin Heusser & Gudrun Grabher, American foundational myths:Papers from the 2000 joint conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies and the Austrian Association for American Studies. 2002:70.
2. ↑ Roger John Williams, The human frontier, 1946:298