This article is about demonyms for the people of the United States at large. For demonyms of people from individual states, see List of demonyms for US states and territories.
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People from the United States of America are known as and refer to themselves as Americans. Different languages use different terms for citizens of the United States. All forms of English refer to US citizens as Americans, a term deriving from the United States of America, the country's official name. In the English context, it came to refer to inhabitants of British America, and then the United States.[1] There is some linguistic ambiguity over this use due to the other senses of the word American, which can also refer to people from the Americas in general.[2] Other languages, including French, Japanese, and Russian, use cognates of American to refer to people from the United States, while others, particularly Spanish and Portuguese, primarily use terms derived from United States or North America. There are various other local and colloquial names for Americans. The name America came from the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
^"American, n. and adj.". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2008.
^Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, p. 87. Retrieved November 28, 2008.
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