Americanologist

American  

[uh-mer-i-kuh-nol-uh-jist] / əˌmɛr ɪ kəˈnɒl ə dʒɪst /

noun

1. a foreign expert or specialist in American cultural or political matters.

   a leading Americanologist in the Kremlin.

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Etymology

Origin of Americanologist

1965–70; American + -o- -o- ( def. ) + -log(y) ( def. ) + -ist

Example Sentences

That view was reflected even more strongly in an Izvestia article by Georgi Arbatov, the noted Americanologist and former Gorbachev adviser.

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Georgi Arbatov, the country's best-known Americanologist, believes the new President should have veto powers, noting that "we should carefully study the American experience on this."

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"A summit must not be just a ceremonial and pompous meeting," says Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's best-known Americanologist.

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Mikhail Gorbachev and his chief Americanologist, Georgi Arbatov, have been talking of Soviet eagerness to negotiate arms reduction.

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When Dobrynin was tapped in March for higher duties as a Central Committee Secretary in the Kremlin, diplomatic circles speculated that the Kremlin would pick as his successor another Americanologist, perhaps one of the highly regarded new generation of experts from the Foreign Ministry.

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