The American Dictionary — Standard American 250

The American
Dictionary.

A reference work of the American language — published by American Languages LLC, ratified by the American Language Academy Foundation. It exists, it is online, and you can read it right now.

115,718 Entries on record
Webster 1828 · 1913 — present

Three entries, as published.

Every civic and legal sense defers to the federal standard and cites it. The editorial senses that follow are the Academy's own. That is the whole method: record and cite, never adjudicate.

American

noun · adjective

Civic / Legal A citizen or national of the United States of America. 8 U.S.C. § 1101
Ethno-National A native individual belonging to the distinct, synthesized population forged through the ethnogenesis of multi-century historical, genetic, and cultural fusion between foundational Anglo-Saxon and Sahelian/Sudanian lineages within the territory of the United States.

citizen

noun

Civic / Legal A person born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; one who, by such birth or naturalization, holds full legal membership in the nation-state and the state in which they reside. U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1 · Civil Rights Act of 1866 · Calvin's Case (K.B. 1608) · United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) · Trump v. Barbara, 609 U.S. ___ (2026)

dapper

adjective

Adjectival / Dress Neat and trim in appearance, especially in dress; stylishly attired with deliberate attention to grooming and detail. Carries a register of unhurried precision and self-possession. Daniel R. Day, alias "Dapper Dan" (b. 1944), Harlem couturier — 125th Street, 1982–1992. Attestation of cultural register, not etymological credit.

The country asked for this in print.

On 23 April 2026 the Washington Post ran the case for making American the official language of the United States by its two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Fox News carried it the same week; the wires followed. The argument is not new — Jefferson made it, Theodore Roosevelt made it, and Noah Webster staked his life's work on it.

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