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A·mer·i·ca

(ə-mĕr′ĭ-kə)

1. The United States.

2. also the A·mer·i·cas (-kəz) The landmasses and islands of North America, Central America, and South America.

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America

(əˈmɛrɪkə)

1. (Placename) short for the United States of America

2. (Placename) Also called: the Americas the American continent, including North, South, and Central America

[C16: from Americus, Latin form of Amerigo; after Amerigo Vespucci]

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A•mer•i•ca

(əˈmɛr ɪ kə)

n.

1. United States.

2. North America.

3. South America.

4. Also called the Americas. North and South America, considered together.

America

Americamania

an obsession with America and things American.

un-Americanism

the state or condition of being out of sympathy with or against an ideal of American behavior, attitudes, beliefs, etc. — un-American, n., adj.

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Noun	1.	America - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, the States, U.S. multiple voting - the act of voting in more than one place by the same person at the same election (illegal in U.S.) snake dance - a ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked reallotment, reapportionment, reallocation - a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) trust busting - (law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws) Boston Tea Party - demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea recall - the act of removing an official by petition American Civil War, United States Civil War, War between the States - civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865 water spaniel - any dog of two large curly-coated breeds used for hunting waterfowl maquiladora - an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border slave market - a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War) totem - emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians) hooter, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout, nozzle, honker, beak - informal terms for the nose southernism - an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) shamanism - any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) Social Security number - the number of a particular individual's Social Security account joint resolution - a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the Chief Executive (or passed over the Chief Executive's veto) Bill of Rights - a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution) Athabascan, Athapaskan language, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir) inaugural, inaugural address - an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) tart - a small open pie with a fruit filling teacake - any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea partridge - flesh of either quail or grouse cola, dope - carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States) combination in restraint of trade - (law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust laws of the United States) State Department - a department of government in one of the 50 states department of the federal government, federal department, federal office - a department of the federal government of the United States federation of tribes, tribe - a federation (as of American Indians) NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization - an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security OAS, Organization of American States - an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation nation - a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation" independent agency - an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments IC, Intelligence Community, National Intelligence Community, United States Intelligence Community - a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence county - (United States) the largest administrative district within a state; "the county plans to build a new road" eastern United States, East - the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River middle west, Midwest, midwestern United States - the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) Pacific Northwest - a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia
	2.	America - North America and South America and Central America Central America - the isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama South America - a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama

America

noun

Quotations
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy" [John Updike How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time]
"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for" [E.M. Forster Two Cheers for Democracy]
"The business of America is business" [Calvin Coolidge Speech, 1925]
"America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!" [Israel Zangwill The Melting Pot]
"America, thou half-brother of the world;"
"With something good and bad of every land" [Philip James Bailey Festus]
"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof" [Mary McCarthy On the Contrary]
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success" [Sigmund Freud]
"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair" [A.J. Toynbee]

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Translations

أمريكا

Amerika

Amerika

Αμερική

Ameriko

América Estados Unidos de América

Ameerika

Amerikka

Amérique

Amerika

Ameríka

America americano Stati Uniti d'America

アメリカ

미국

America

Amerika

America

Amerika

ทวีปอเมริกา

Amerika

châu Mỹ

美国

America

[əˈmerɪkə] N (= continent) → América f; (= USA) → Estados mpl Unidos

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America

[əˈmɛrɪkə] n

(= USA) → l'Amérique f
in America → en Amérique
to America → en Amérique

(= American continent) → l'Amérique f
in America → en Amérique
to America → en Amérique

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America

n → Amerika nt; the Americas → Amerika nt, → der amerikanische Kontinent

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America

[əˈmɛrɪkə] n → America

America

→ أمريكا Amerika Amerika Amerika Αμερική América Amerikka Amérique Amerika America アメリカ 미국 Amerika Amerika Ameryka América Америка Amerika ทวีปอเมริกา Amerika châu Mỹ 美国

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A spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America. When our founders boldly declared America's independence to the world, and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change.

On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of service to America. .

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WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident.

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But there were some circumstances that caused America to feel more independent of England than at an earlier period.

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My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination.

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'Hang it!' said Bill to himself in the cab, 'I'll go to America!' The exact words probably which Columbus had used, talking the thing over with his wife.

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This method of handling the subject cannot impose on the good sense of the people of America. It may display the subtlety of the writer; it may open a boundless field for rhetoric and declamation; it may inflame the passions of the unthinking, and may confirm the prejudices of the misthinking: but cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them; that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT, good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused.

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I have myself published separate volumes on the 'Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs;' on the 'Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;' and on the 'Geology of South America.' The sixth volume of the 'Geological Transactions' contains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America.

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During the days that followed I had several opportunities to question him as to his reason for his voyage to America, but I obtained no more precise answers than he had given me on the evening of the adjournment of the trial, when we were on the train for Paris.

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The case of America alone would almost suffice to prove its truth: for if we exclude the northern parts where the circumpolar land is almost continuous, all authors agree that one of the most fundamental divisions in geographical distribution is that between the New and Old Worlds; yet if we travel over the vast American continent, from the central parts of the United States to its extreme southern point, we meet with the most diversified conditions; the most humid districts, arid deserts, lofty mountains, grassy plains, forests, marshes, lakes, and great rivers, under almost every temperature.

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"You forget the duty, Desiree," observed the military trader; "this compromise law is a thousand times worse than any law we have ever had in America."

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Whether, for instance, he took away with him documents or papers intended for the Embassy and which you yourself had brought from America?"