Usanianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

USA + -an + -ian, parallel to Panamanian, etc.; or Usania +‎ -an

発音

• IPA^(key): /juːˈseɪni.ən/

形容詞

Usanian (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
   • 1947, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, volume 13, page 41:

     In addition to a detailed analysis of the growth of 5 USAnian cities of metropolitan proportians—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles— […]

   • 1965, Keston College, editor, Frontier, volume 17, page 27:

     The fundamental principle of this fundamental Usanian document is that the sovereign citizens of separate governments establish a federal government.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Usanian.

名詞

Usanian (複数形 Usanians)

1. An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
   • 1945, Charles Grey Grey, The civil air war, page 116:

     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.”

   • 2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems, page 342:

     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 countries