Definition of
America
- (noun, location) 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
- (noun, object) North America and South America and Central America
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Synonyms of America
the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa
Alternate forms of America
Derivations: american
Origin of the word America
- 1507, in Cartographer Martin Waldseem?ller's treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio," from Mod.L. Americanus, after Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it. His published works put forward the idea that it was a new continent, and he was first to call it Novus Mundus "New World." Amer… more
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Words that sound like America
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