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AMERICAN ENGLISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American English mean?
• AMERICAN ENGLISH (noun)
The noun AMERICAN ENGLISH has 1 sense:
1. the English language as used in the United States
Familiarity information: AMERICAN ENGLISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The English language as used in the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
American; American English; American language
Hypernyms ("American English" is a kind of...):
English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American English"):
AAVE; African American English; African American Vernacular English; Black English; Black English Vernacular; Black Vernacular; Black Vernacular English; Ebonics (a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States)
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