AMERICAN ENGLISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American English mean? 

• AMERICAN ENGLISH (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN ENGLISH has 1 sense:

1. the English language as used in the United States

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN ENGLISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN ENGLISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The English language as used in the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

American; American English; American language

Hypernyms ("American English" is a kind of...):

English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American English"):

AAVE; African American English; African American Vernacular English; Black English; Black English Vernacular; Black Vernacular; Black Vernacular English; Ebonics (a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States)