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usonianism | usonian | Derived terms |

Usonian is a derived term of usonianism.



As nouns the difference between usonianism and usonian

is that usonianism is a custom, idea, or usage peculiar to the USA; a Usonian mentality; a preference for the USA and the ideas it represents while Usonian is an inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.

As an adjective Usonian is

of or relating to the United States of America.

usonianism

English

Noun

(-), usonianism
  • (rare) A custom, idea, or usage peculiar to the USA; a Usonian mentality; a preference for the USA and the ideas it represents
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1995 , author=Bruce-Novoa , chapter=Through the Eye of the Condor: The Limitless Horizons of Literary Space , editor=María Duke dos Santos, Patricia De la Fuente , title=Sabine R. Ulibarrí , page=98 , passage=That Ulibarri sees the Ecuadorean Indian as too burdened by a tradition of dehumanizing servitude is perhaps more revealing of his deep-seated Usonianism than of the Indians' real character.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , author=José F. Buscaglia-Salgado , title=Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean , page=22 , passage=Already in the early process of developing a Usonian nationalist ideology, or Usonianism ,
  • (rare) The philosophical ideal of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian architecture
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1979 , author=American Society for Environmental History , title=Environmental Review , page=21 , passage=Broadacres was the ultimate landscape combining the best of the cities and the country, organicism, decentralization and usonianism .}}
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    • , year=2002 , author=April 15 , chapter=Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usonianism" Will Be Explored in Talk Sponsored by UB Art History Department , title=NewsCenter , publisher=State University of New York at Buffalo , passage="Usonianism ," an architectural style that articulated Frank Lloyd Wright's social and economic principles of "usonian democracy,"
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    • , year=ca 2008 , author=Colorado Historical Society , title=Nomination of the Nelson House to the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties , passage=Architect Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered Usonianism as the path to affordable modern residential architecture.}}

    Synonyms

    *(An idea or usage peculiar to the USA) Americanism

    Derived terms

    *(rare) Usonianist

    External links

    * The Colorado Historical Society page describing Wrightian Usonianism. (Written some time after 2006 Aug 29. Accessed 2008 Sept 12)

    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.
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    • , 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.
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    • , 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.