Pan-Americanism
Americannoun
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the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.
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a movement for or the idea or advocacy of close economic, cultural, and military cooperation among the Pan-American countries.
Etymology
Origin of Pan-Americanism
1900–05, Pan-American ( def. ) + -ism
Example Sentences
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And back to Pan-Americanism: Sept. 18-20, Wynton Marsalis collaborates with the Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes and the percussionist Pedrito Martinez.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2014
Peru accorded the Vice President a 21-gun salute, approved such polite profundities as his remark that Pan-Americanism was "the vertebral column" for any new world organization.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if Pan-Americanism in the arts lags behind Pan-Americanism in politics there was evidence in Manhattan that it at least exists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wariest of all is balky, recalcitrant Argentina, the bad boy of Pan-Americanism.
From Time Magazine Archive
The movement of Pan-Americanism has missed achieving the full hopes of its supporters owing not so much to a difference of fundamental ideas and interests as to suspicion and national pride.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Fish, Carl Russell
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