American Facts for Kids

American might mean:

American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the United States
- Americans, nationals and citizens of the United States of America
- American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American"
- American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States
- Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States
American, something of, from, or related to the Americas
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts

Organizations

American Airlines
American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American
American University, in Washington, D.C.

Allen Americans, a minor league hockey team
Baltimore Americans, the name of two soccer teams, one from 1939 to 1942 and one from 1942 to 1948
Boston Red Sox, a baseball team known from 1901 to 1907 as the Boston Americans
Brooklyn Nets, a basketball team known in the 1960s as the New York Americans and New Jersey Americans
Chicago Americans, a soccer team in 1972
Dallas Americans, a soccer team from 1983 to 1985
Hartford Americans, a soccer team from 1927 to 1928
Miami Americans, a reincarnation of the New Jersey Americans in 1980
Nashville Americans, an 1885–1886 minor league baseball team
New Jersey Americans (soccer), a soccer team from 1976 to 1979
New York Americans (soccer), a soccer team from 1931 to 1956
New York Americans, an ice hockey team from 1925 to 1942
New York Yankees (1940 AFL), an American football team known as the New York Americans in 1941
Oakland Oaks (ABA), a basketball team known briefly in 1967 as the Oakland Americans
Pittsburgh Americans, an American football team from 1936 to 1937
Rochester Americans, a minor league ice hockey franchise in the American Hockey League (AHL)
Seattle Totems, an ice hockey team known from 1955 to 1958 as the Seattle Americans
Tri-City Americans, a junior ice hockey team
Uhrik Truckers, a soccer team known from 1941 to 1953 as the Philadelphia Americans

American (1899 automobile), by American Automobile Company, New York City
American (1902 automobile), by American Motor Carriage Company, Cleveland
American (1911 automobile), by American Automobile Manufacturing Company founded in Missouri
American (1914 automobile), by American Cyclecar Co, Michigan
American (1917 automobile), built in New Jersey
American Motors Corporation
Rambler American, from American Motors (1958–1969)
USS American, several ships of the US Navy
4-4-0, a classification of railway locomotive

American (album), a 2017 studio album by RuPaul
"American", a song by Fish Karma
"American" (Lana Del Rey song), 2012
AmericanEP, an extended play album by English electronica duo The Chemical Brothers
American Quartet (Dvořák), a string quartet by Antonín Dvořák