American

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American(s) may refer to:

  • American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
    • Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
    • American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American"
    • American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States
    • Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States
  • American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America"
  • American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts

Organizations

  • American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas
  • American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference
  • American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American
  • American University, in Washington, D.C.

Sports teams

Soccer

  • Baltimore Americans, the name of two soccer teams, one from 1939 to 1942 and one from 1942 to 1948
  • Chicago Americans, a soccer team in 1972
  • Dallas Americans, a soccer team from 1983 to 1985
  • Hartford Americans, a soccer team from 1927 to 1928
  • Miami Americans, a reincarnation of the New Jersey Americans in 1980
  • New Jersey Americans (soccer), a soccer team from 1976 to 1979
  • New York Americans (soccer), a soccer team from 1931 to 1956
  • Uhrik Truckers, a soccer team known from 1941 to 1953 as the Philadelphia Americans

Hockey

  • Allen Americans, a minor league hockey team
  • New York Americans, an ice hockey team from 1925 to 1942
  • Rochester Americans, a minor league ice hockey franchise in the American Hockey League (AHL)
  • Seattle Totems, an ice hockey team known from 1955 to 1958 as the Seattle Americans
  • Tri-City Americans, a junior ice hockey team

Baseball

  • Boston Red Sox, a baseball team known from 1901 until 1907 as the Boston Americans
  • Nashville Americans, an 1885–1886 minor league baseball team
  • American League, a professional baseball league organized in 1901
  • American Association (disambiguation), a name used by several professional baseball leagues

Basketball

  • Brooklyn Nets, a basketball team known in the 1960s as the New York Americans and New Jersey Americans
  • Oakland Oaks (ABA), a basketball team known briefly in 1967 as the Oakland Americans

American football

  • Pittsburgh Americans, an American football team from 1936 until 1937
  • New York Yankees (1940 AFL), an American football team known as the New York Americans in 1941

Vehicles

  • American (1899 automobile), by American Automobile Company, New York City
  • American (1902 automobile), by American Motor Carriage Company, Cleveland
  • American (1911 automobile), by American Automobile Manufacturing Company founded in Missouri
  • American (1914 automobile), by American Cyclecar Company, Michigan
  • American (1917 automobile), built in New Jersey
  • American Motors Corporation (AMC), automobile manufacturing company (1954–1988)
  • Rambler American, a compact line of cars by American Motors Corporation (1958–1969)
  • USS American, several ships of the US Navy
  • 4-4-0, a classification of railway locomotive described as the American type

Music

  • American (album), a 2017 studio album by RuPaul
  • "American", a song by Fish Karma
  • "American" (Lana Del Rey song), 2012
  • AmericanEP, an extended play album by English electronica duo The Chemical Brothers
  • American Quartet (Dvořák), a string quartet by Antonín Dvořák

Places

Other uses

  • American cheese, a type of processed cheese
  • American McGee (born 1972), American video game designer
  • American (RuPaul's Drag Race), a television episode

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with American
  • All pages with titles containing American
  • America (disambiguation)
  • Americana (disambiguation)
  • Armorican (disambiguation)
  • The American (disambiguation)
  • The Americans (disambiguation)
  • List of automobile manufacturers of the United States
  • American Made (disambiguation)
  • Pan-American (disambiguation)
  • Anti-American
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