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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 Catholics
Familiarity information: AMERICAN PARTY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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