Editing Anti-Americanism (section)

==Etymology==
In the online [[Oxford Dictionaries (website)|Oxford Dictionaries]], the term "anti-Americanism" is defined as "Hostility to the interests of the United States".<ref name="Oxforddictionaries.com">{{cite web |title=anti-americanism: definition of anti-Americanism in English by Oxford dictionaries |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=11 August 2014 |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/anti-americanism |access-date=28 April 2019 |archive-date=2 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202141816/https://www.lexico.com/definition/anti-americanism }}</ref>

In the first edition of Webster's [[Webster's Dictionary|American Dictionary of the English Language]] (1828) the term "anti-American" was defined as "opposed to America, or to the true interests or government of the United States; opposed to the revolution in America".<ref>{{cite web |title=The ARTFL Project – Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913+1828) |publisher=Machaut.uchicago.edu |url=http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=antiamerican&use1913=on&use1828=on |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120305190842/http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=antiamerican&use1913=on&use1828=on |archive-date=5 March 2012 }}</ref>

In France the use of the noun form ''antiaméricanisme'' has been cataloged from 1948,<ref name="ReferenceA">Le Petit Robert {{ISBN|2-85036-668-4}}</ref> entering ordinary political language in the 1950s.<ref name="introductory excerpt">Roger, Phillipe. ''The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism,'' [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/723682.html introductory excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829162427/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/723682.html |date=29 August 2017 }}, University of Chicago Press, 2005.</ref>