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usonia | usonian |

As a proper noun usonia

is a one-word name for the united states of america that does not have the ambiguity of "america".

As an adjective usonian is

of or relating to the united states of america.

As a noun usonian is

an inhabitant or citizen of the united states of america.

usonia

English

(wikipedia Usonia)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A one-word name for the United States of America that does not have the ambiguity of "America"
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1903 , author=James D. Law , chapter=The Sack of Auchindore , title=Here and There in Two Hemispheres , page=111–112 , publisher=Lancaster: Home Publishing Co. , passage=And in Usonia's' mighty Lan'— / What almost seems beyond belief— / An offshoot of the Irvine clan / Is honor'd as the nation's chief!

    We of the United States, in justice to Canadians and Mexicans, have no right to use the title " Americans " when referring to matters pertaining exclusively to ourselves.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1982 , author=Robert Champigny , title=Sartre and drama , page=64 , passage=Sartre may have banked on an irritation with Usonia' derived from the conviction that, without Usonian troops, France would not have been liberated. Add to this feeling of inferiority the fact, or rumour, that, for a few months, some sacred Parisian bread was made of corn ordered from ' Usonia instead of wheat,
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Juan Bruce-Novoa , chapter=Twenty years of transatlantic Usonianism , editor=Walter Grünzweig , title=The United States in Global Contexts: American Studies After 9/11 and Iraq , page=23 , passage=The Berlin Wall's fall and internet's rise inform new readings of America as much as the collapsing Twin Towers and Latinization of Usonia .}}
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's utopian vision of the United States
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2005 , author=Colin Porteous, Kerr MacGregor , title=Solar Architecture in Cool Climates , page=233 , passage=[Wright] also refers to 'the great Usonian Life, the universal life of our own true democracy' and 'the road to Freedom in Usonia' . The association of USA and utopia is inescapable
  • A community in New York state designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian style
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2001 , author=Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Timpane , title=Usonia, New York , page=xvii , passage=THEY NAMED THEIR COMMUNITY of forty-seven homes near Pleasantville, New York, "Usonia " in homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, whose ideas on the way Americans should live together guided their plan.}}
  • (rare) In geopolitical and international economic modeling, a prototype superpower that, in competing with an antagonistic superpower Russonia (the Soviet Union), allows Thirdonia (a hypothetical neutral Third World country) to extract considerable wealth from both.
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1964 , author=Albert O. Hirschmann , title=The Stability of Neutralism: A Geometric Note , journal=The American economic review , page=94 , passage=Suppose two powerful, industrialized countries, called Usonia and Russonia, compete by mean of capital exports and other forms of "aid" for influence in various underdeveloped countries, typified by Thirdonia.}}

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "Usonia")

    Synonyms

    * (The country) America, United States, USA, Usania

    Derived terms

    * Usonian * Usono * (rare) Russonia * (rare) Thirdonia

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    usonian

    English

    (wikipedia Usonian)

    Adjective

    Usonian', (rare) '''usonian''', (rare) ' USonian
  • Of or relating to the United States of America.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , author=Toshiko Mori , title=Materials, Fabrication + Performance: The Journal of the School of Architecture and Planning , page=121 , passage=Right below Juan Ponce is the Palace of the Fortaleza de Santa Catalina drawn in such a way so as to highlight the Puerto Rican and the Usonian flags waving above.}}
    This much was already evident in the opinions expressed by Usonian politicians and ideologues following the end of the War of 1898.
  • Of 's vision for a utopian United States.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1936 (2000) , author=John Dos Passos , title=The Big Money , page=346 , passage=only in freedom can we build the Usonian city. His [Wright's] plans are coming to life.}}
    The great Usonian Life, the universal life of our own true democracy.
  • Of or relating to a style of construction introduced by Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=Paul Adamson, Marty Arbunich, & Ernie Braun , title=Eichler , page=94 , passage=His ability to design buildings to fit their locations was one of his great talents, and his Usonian houses, despite the highly systematized construction methods used, were always attuned to the particulars of each building location. The composition of the exterior walls and the structural system was repeated from house to house
    Their residential design is strongly influenced by Prairie and Usonian architecture.
  • Pertaining to Usonia, New York, or similar communities.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2001 , author=Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Timpane , title=Usonia, New York , page= , passage=As the median age of Usonian children grew,
    Okemos, Michigan was to be the site of Wright's first Usonian community.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "Usonian")

    Usage notes

    The comparative and superlative, as in his most Usonian design, are not common. (See .) Generally capitalized.

    Synonyms

    * (Of the United States of America) American, US American, United Statesian, US-ian, Usanian, Usonan * (Wrightian architecture) Prairie, Prairie-style

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Juan Bruce-Novoa , chapter=Twenty years of transatlantic Usonianism , editor=Walter Grünzweig , title=The United States in Global Contexts: American Studies After 9/11 and Iraq , page=23 , passage=As a Usonian of Celtic-Franco/Gallego Mexican-Quaker-Catholic-German-Blackfoot-Rock&Roll descent, I feel at home.}}
  • An inhabitant of the Wrightian community of Usonia, New York.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2001 , author=Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Timpane , title=Usonia, New York , page=13 , passage="Those were the best of the arguments," one Usonian remembered. }}
  • A house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian style.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1994 , author=Edward Russo , title=Illinois historical journal , publisher=Illinois State Historical Society , page=333 , passage=Rosenbaum does an admirable job of characterizing the philosophy behind the Usonian and its particular place in time.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=Paul Adamson, Marty Arbunich, & Ernie Braun , title=Eichler , page=94 , passage=His ability to design buildings to fit their locations was one of his great talents, and his Usonian houses, despite the highly systematized construction methods used, were always attuned to the particulars of each building location. The composition of the exterior walls and the structural system was repeated from house to house

    Synonyms

    * (Inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America) American, US American, United Statesian, US-ian, Usanian

    Derived terms

    * Usonianism * Afro-Usonian * extra-Usonian (see citations) * non-Usonian (see citations)

    References

    * "Usonian" in Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition revised, Oxford Dictionaries, 2008.