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
Pan-Americanism, says Dr. Quintanilla, is now in its fourth stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will give him opportunity to push his, and Brazil's, two-fold policy: Pan-Americanism and friendship with the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
For if the U. S. fights Canada and Argentina for the shrinking European market, they will be less likely to play the game of good neighborliness, Pan-Americanism and Hemisphere Defense.
From Time Magazine Archive
She gives valuable trade-preference to the manufactures of the mother-country in the Old World, and there is happily no reason to believe that she will abandon the Imperial ideals for the objects of continental Pan-Americanism.
From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon Mills
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