Usually means: Exemplifying idealized American qualities, spirit.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word all-american:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. all-American: Merriam-Webster
  2. all-American: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. all-American: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. all-American, all-American: Collins English Dictionary
  5. All-American, all-american, all-American: Wordnik
  6. all-american, all-American: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. all-American: Wiktionary
  8. all-American: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. all-American: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. all-American: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. All-American: Dictionary.com
  12. all-american: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. All-American: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. all-American: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. all-American: Merriam-Webster

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  1. all-american: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (all-American)

▸ adjective:  Comprising things that are wholly from the United States of America; completely made in the United States.
▸ adjective:  Regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States; (specifically) of a person: courageous, heroic; honest, wholesome, etc.
▸ adjective:  (US, chiefly sports) Of a person or a team, or some other thing: regarded as the best in the United States.
▸ noun:  A person or thing regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States of America; (specifically) a person from the United States who is courageous, heroic, honest, wholesome, etc.
▸ noun:  (US, chiefly sports) A person or a team, or some other thing, regarded as the best in the United States.

Similar:
American, transamerican, US-American, United Statesian, US-ian, USAian, USian, Usonian, Americanian, Anglo-American, more...

Opposite:
un-American, anti-American, non-American

Phrases:
All-American Canal, The All-American Rejects, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, The All-American Rejects discography, 2022 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, more...

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Similar:
American, transamerican, US-American, United Statesian, US-ian, USAian, USian, Usonian, Americanian, Anglo-American, more...

Opposite:
un-American, anti-American, non-American

Phrases:
All-American Canal, The All-American Rejects, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, The All-American Rejects discography, 2022 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, more...



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