the American dream

noun phrase

variants or the American Dream

: a happy way of living that is thought of by many Americans as something that can be achieved by anyone in the U.S. especially by working hard and becoming successful

With good jobs, a nice house, two children, and plenty of money, they believed they were living the American dream.

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There’s the Yellow Brick Road — this was the American dream. —

Brent Lang, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024 Some look at Maya as a gold-digger, others as the American dream embodied. —

Lizz Schumer, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024 The stories of Shawn Carter and Sean Combs highlight the American dream: One hailing from Brooklyn and the other from Harlem, the two men, then in their 20s, took the next step in jumpstarting their empires. —

Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024 Sanders sought to remedy the disease of the Democratic Party — its abandonment of economic populism and of the American dream. —

Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the American dream

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