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Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
Maya Lin

Meaning of "Asian-American" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ASIAN-AMERICAN

Asian-American  [ˈeɪʒənəˈmerɪkən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASIAN-AMERICAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Asian-American is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ASIAN-AMERICAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Asian-American

Asian American

Asian Americans 18.9 million 2012 U.S. Census Bureau Estimate Regions with significant populations Throughout the United States especially major urban areas in the U.S. Languages ▪ American English ▪ Asian Languages Religion Christian Unaffiliated Buddhist Hindu Muslim Sikh Other including Jain Related ethnic groups Asian American of Hispanic and Latino ethnicity Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the South Asian. It includes people who indicated their race as "Asian" or reported entries such as "Chinese", "Filipino", "Indian", "Vietnamese", "Korean", "Japanese", and "Other Asian" or provided other detailed Asian responses. They comprise 6.0% of the U.S. population. As of 2012, Asian Americans had the highest educational attainment level and median household income of any racial demographic in the country, and in 2008 they had the highest median personal income overall of any racial demographic.

Definition of Asian-American in the English dictionary

The definition of Asian-American in the dictionary is of or connected with Americans of Asian ancestry.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASIAN-AMERICAN


African
ˈæfrɪkən
American
əˈmɛrɪkən
Armorican
ɑːˈmɒrɪkən
awe-stricken
ˈɔːˌstrɪkən
awestricken
ˈɔːˌstrɪkən
bricken
ˈbrɪkən
horror-stricken
ˈhɒrəˌstrɪkən
hurricane
ˈhʌrɪkən
Latino-American
læˈtiːnəʊəˌmerɪkən
love-stricken
ˈlʌvstrɪkən
lovestricken
ˈlʌvstrɪkən
Meso-American
ˌmiːzəʊəˈmɛrɪkən
Mesoamerican
ˌmɛsəʊəˈmɛrɪkən
Mexican
ˈmɛksɪkən
moonstricken
ˈmuːnˌstrɪkən
plague-stricken
ˈpleɪɡˌstrɪkən
planet-stricken
ˈplænɪtˌstrɪkən
stricken
ˈstrɪkən
taken
ˈteɪkən
thunderstricken
ˈθʌndəˌstrɪkən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASIAN-AMERICAN

Asia
Asia Minor
asiago
Asian
Asian flu
Asian pear
Asian semi-longhair
Asian shorthair
Asiatic
Asiatic beetle
Asiatic black bear
Asiatic buffalo
Asiatic cholera
aside
aside from
Asimov
Asimovian

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASIAN-AMERICAN

African-American
all-American
Anglo-American
anti-American
Central American
Early American
East African
jerrican
Latin American
Native American
North African
North American
Pan-African
Pan-American
pro-American
South African
South American
Spanish-American
un-American
Vatican
West African

Synonyms and antonyms of Asian-American in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Asian-American» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASIAN-AMERICAN

Find out the translation of Asian-American to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Asian-American from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Asian-American» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

亚美
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Asiático - Americana
570 millions of speakers

English

Asian-American
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एशियाई मूल के अमेरिकी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الآسيوية الأمريكية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Азиатско- американская
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Asiático-Americana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এশিয়ান আমেরিকান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Asian-American
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Asia-Amerika
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Asian-American
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アジア系アメリカ人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아시아계 미국인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Asian-American
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Người Mỹ gốc Á
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆசிய-அமெரிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आशियाई अमेरिकन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Asyalı-Amerikalı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Asiatico-americano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Asian -American
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Азіатсько - американська
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Asia - american
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ασίας - αμερικανική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Asiatiese - Amerikaanse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Asian -American
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Asia og USA
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Asian-American

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASIAN-AMERICAN»

The term «Asian-American» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.410 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASIAN-AMERICAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Asian-American» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Asian-American» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Asian-American

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10 QUOTES WITH «ASIAN-AMERICAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Asian-American.
1
Justin Chon
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
2
Justin Chon
It's funny - when I started acting, I didn't know I was going to be talking about Asian-American issues so much. You know what, though? It just comes with the territory, being ethnic.
3
Tess Gerritsen
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this, but Asian-American men are angry. They're angry because, for so many years, they've been neglected as sex symbols. Asian women have it much easier, I think; we're accepted into various circles.
4
Tess Gerritsen
I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could.
5
David Henry Hwang
My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view.
6
Jeremy Lin
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
7
Maya Lin
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
8
Mako
No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
9
Grace Meng
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
10
Robert Morgan
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASIAN-AMERICAN»

Discover the use of Asian-American in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Asian-American and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
An account of the emergence of the Asian American consciousness in the United States explores the history that led to disparate groups of Asians seeing themselves as a single, cohesive ethnic community with political power.
Helen Zia, 2001
2
Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love
Labor, laws, and love. Yen Le Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men.
Yen Le Espiritu, 2008
3
Asian American Politics
An introduction to the study of Asian American participation in US politics.
Andrew Aoki, Okiyoshi Takeda, 2009
4
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier
This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America.
David Palumbo-Liu, 1999
5
Asian American Political Participation: Emerging ...
The book shows that the motivations for and impediments to political participation are as diverse as the Asian American population.
Janelle Wong, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, 2011
6
Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical ...
Provides alphabetically arranged entries on the lives and writings of 70 Asian American novelists.
Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, 2000
7
Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity
Shows how Asian American youth have created a distinct identity and space for themselves in contemporary multicultural America.
Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou, 2004
8
Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and ...
The first book to examine this particular subject, Asian American Panethnicity is a highly detailed case study of how, and with what success, diverse national-origin groups can come together as a new, enlarged panethnic group.
Yen Espiritu, 2011
9
An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature
This book provides a survey of literature by North American writers of Asian descent, both by national origins (Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Vietnamese) and by shared concerns.
King-Kok Cheung, 1997
10
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics
In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation.
Lisa Lowe, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASIAN-AMERICAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Asian-American is used in the context of the following news items.
1
New visa rule to benefit South Asian immigrants
In Illinois, the South Asian-American population grew by more than 55 percent to 242,000 from 2000 to 2010, according to data in a 2013 report ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Coming of Age in South Carolina as an Asian-American
At the time, there were only a handful of Asian-American families in our town. We knew most of them by first name. Our school had one Black ... «Fusion, Jun 15»
3
Asian-American Groups Hail Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling
Asian-American groups hailed the Supreme Court's decision today to reject a challenge to President Obama's health care law, ruling to uphold ... «NBCNews.com, Jun 15»
4
She'll Play the Jewish Mother, and Wants Other Asian-Americans to …
When the actress Mia Katigbak was a student at Barnard College in the 1970s, she was the only Asian-American studying theater and mostly ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
5
Nebraska Asian-American population growth outpaces Hispanics
The Asian-American population increased by 4.9 percent, although their overall numbers remained much smaller than the Hispanic population. «Yankton Daily Press, Jun 15»
6
Asian-American community applauds mayor on Lunar New Year …
Nancy Tong was one of several Asian-American leaders around the city pushing for public schools to be closed for the Lunar New Year holiday ... «Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jun 15»
7
Asian-American Band, The Slants, Attempt To Distance Themselves …
In a case that has been ongoing for nearly five years, Portland dance-rock outfit, The Slants, continue to battle the ruling from the U.S. Court of ... «UPROXX, Jun 15»
8
The Ivy League Prejudice: why highly qualified Asian-American
A former Ivy League admissions dean outlines how Asian-American students face significant prejudice in the application process for ... «Study International News, Jun 15»
9
BEAUTY IS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP FOR ASIAN-AMERICANS
Personal care maintenance and the desire to live healthy lifestyles are also imperative to Asian-American shoppers. They spend 22% more on ... «International Supermarket News, Jun 15»
10
Asian-Americans and the 'bamboo ceiling'
A group of Asian-American organizations recently held a splashy press conference in Washington to announce that they will file a federal ... «Houston Chronicle, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Asian-American [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/asian-american>. Apr 2024 ».
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