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pan-American, a.|pænəˈmɛrɪkən|
[pan- 1.]
Of or pertaining to all the states of North and South America or to all Americans.
1889Evening Post (N.Y) 27 Sept. 4/3 European Opinion on the Pan-American Congress. 1901Daily News 11 Apr. 5/1 The Buffalo Pan-American Exposition. 1901Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 4/2 The Pan-American Congress was opened at four o'clock yesterday afternoon at Mexico. 1927New Republic 21 Sept. 110/1 The existence of the Pan-American Union, and the calling of an occasional Pan-American Congress, should not deceive anyone as to the predominant position of the United States in this hemisphere. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 200 Pan-American Airways..are responsible for the long-distance international services. 1966Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. xiv/5 Canada's 1967 Pan-American Games.
Hence pan-Aˈmericanism, the idea or sentiment of a political alliance or union of all the states of North and South America; also, a movement towards better commercial and cultural relations among American nations.
1902Monthly Rev. Oct. 66 The French-Canadian,..should a change be forced upon him, would incline towards Pan-Americanism. 1915W. Wilson Public Papers (1926) III. 409 This is Pan-Americanism. It has none of the spirit of empire in it. 1954H. C. Allen Gt. Brit. & United States xiv. 526 His Pan-Americanism, which aimed at the economic and political consolidation of the Western hemisphere,..led him to leap into action on the Isthmian issue. 1966Oxf. Compan. Amer. Hist. 611/2 Pan-Americanism, a new contribution to U.S. policy during the 1880's,..was formulated by Secretary of State Blaine. |