all-American
Americanadjective
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representing the entire United States.
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composed exclusively of American members or elements.
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selected as the best in the United States, as in a sport.
the all-American college football team of 1983.
noun
adjective
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representative of the whole of the United States
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composed exclusively of American members
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(of a person) typically American
the company looks for all-American clean-cut college students
Etymology
Origin of all-American
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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The original features “an all-American archetype of a virtuous family pitted against a monster,” while Scorsese depicted a “broken and dysfunctional family and the monster is even more extreme, he’s like a swamp creature.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Apple is pushing to build an all-American chip.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Constan said things began to shift for his all-American stance in early 2025.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
He didn’t know, of course, that I was making up most of what I wrote, pretending to be the all-American daughter my parents wanted me to be.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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