Word Meanings - PAN-AMERICANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.

Related words: (words related to PAN-AMERICANISM)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• STATESMANLY
  Becoming a statesman.
• STATESMAN
  1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
• ALLIANCE
  1. The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances;
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• ADVOCACY
  The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• STATES-GENERAL
  1. In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty. 2. In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers.
• POLITICALISM
  Zeal or party spirit in politics.
• UNIONISM
  1. The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States. 2. The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.
• STATESMANSHIP
  The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
• UNIONIST
  1. One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States. 2. A member or supporter of a trades union.
• POLITICAL
  1. Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. "A political government." Evelyn. 2. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. "The political state
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.
• NONUNIONIST
  One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.
• EXCOMMUNION
  . A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
• NONUNION
  1. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter. 2. Not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor. --Non*un"ion*ism , n.
• COSMOPOLITICAL
  Having the character of a cosmopolite. Hackluyt.
• DISUNIONIST
  An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.