American English

noun

1. the English language as spoken and written in the U.S.

Word History and Origins

Origin of American English¹

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Example Sentences

The conversations were in person among British and American English speakers from diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and among various age groups.

From Science Daily

One group commonly misunderstood by voice technology are individuals who speak African American English, or AAE.

From Science Daily

“We would write a scene the way we knew how to write it, in colloquial American English, and then it would be translated into Japanese,” said Black.

From Los Angeles Times

The largest responses came from sentences that make some sense but require work to figure them out, such as "Jiffy Lube of -- of therapies, yes," which came from the Corpus of Contemporary American English dataset.

From Science Daily

Predictably, at least if you’ve seen “Aladdin,” Flora is an ancient being who speaks colloquial American English with a deft command of idioms, but also doesn’t know what pizza is.

From New York Times