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AMERICAN PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American Party mean? 

AMERICAN PARTY (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN PARTY has 1 sense:

1. a former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholicsplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN PARTY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN PARTY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

American Party; Know-Nothing Party

Hypernyms ("American Party" is a kind of...):

party; political party (an organization to gain political power)


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