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/əmˈɛrəkən pˈɑrti/ Listen

adjective

American adj.

Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.

Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy."

American ivy. See Virginia creeper.

American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power.

Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.

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"American party" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tromp was delighted to see me, and especially interested in all I had to tell her. I was amused with her notions about the war. Her sympathies were evidently with the American party, but at present she assuredly reaped no small profit from the custom which the military brought to her house. She tried sore to reconcile the two opinions—she wished well to the patriots, and yet she was in no hurry to see the war brought to ...

— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston

... almost two to one and electing all the members of Congress. That shrewd politician, Henry Wilson, contributed to the result; was elected to the United States Senate; and led the anti-slavery element which controlled the American party in Massachusetts and a year or two later divided its national organization. In other States, the term "anti-Nebraska" was the basis of a temporary union, such as in Ohio had a majority of 70,000. In New York the influence of Greeley, Seward, and Weed prolonged ...

— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam

... any of you," observed Beulah, in her placid manner. "If Bob is in the hands of an American party, the brother-in-law of Evert Beekman cannot come to much harm; with British Indians he will be respected for his own sake, as soon as ...

— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper

... Jan. 11—American party sent to relieve German and Austrian prisoners in Russia is halted by the Russian Government ...

— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times

... when three officers in scarlet, preceded by a drummer with a white flag, stood before the American party. ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)