Pan-Americanism

[ pan-uh-mer-i-kuh-niz-uh m ]

/ ˌpæn əˈmɛr ɪ kəˌnɪz əm /

the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.

a movement for or the idea or advocacy of close economic, cultural, and military cooperation among the Pan-American countries.

Origin of Pan-Americanism

1900–05, Americanism; Pan-american + -ism

We have heard more or less of a Pan-Americanism, but we have never taken it seriously.

Prowling about Panama |George A. Miller
Yet this country has not been unappreciative of the larger aspects of Pan-Americanism.

The Path of Empire |Carl Russell Fish
If Pan-Americanism means anything at all, it means a social foundation in honor and intelligence and brotherhood.

Prowling about Panama |George A. Miller
What about Pan-Americanism, the sentiment or system which aims at uniting all the American republics?

South America and the War |F. A. Kirkpatrick

Pan-Americanism, however, was destined to remain largely a generous ideal.

The Hispanic Nations of the New World |William R. Shepherd