how to pronounce americana

/əˌmɛɹɪˈkænə/

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americana is pronounced in five syllables

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An example use of americana in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… packs americana should have been settled …”

meanings of americana

noun:

All things peculiar to the United States' culture and people, anything that is a symbol of American life.
An amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles.

americana frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word americana occurs in english on average 2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics americana can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that americana can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;