Asian American

[ ey-zhuhn-uh-mer-i-kuhn, ey-shuhn- ]

/ ˌeɪ ʒən əˈmɛr ɪ kən, ˈeɪ ʃən- /

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noun

a citizen or resident of the U.S. of Asian birth or descent.

adjective

of or relating to Asian Americans or their culture.

A·sian-A·mer·i·can, occurring between the United States and Asia: Protectionist tariffs negatively affected the volume of Asian-American trade.See Grammar note at Spanish American.

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Origin of Asian American

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby Asian American

Asiadollar, asiago, asialism, Asia Minor, Asian, Asian American, Asian elephant, Asian flu, Asian influenza, Asian pear, Asian semi-longhair

How to use Asian American in a sentence

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
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Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?
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Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.
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The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.
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Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
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We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.
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We can readily see how this might have been, from numerous experiments made with both American and European varieties.
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He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.
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The difficulty of educating handlers of bills in distant places as to American credits.
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But you are English, or you are American; and men of those countries never misunderstand a woman, even if she is in trouble.
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