America
/əˈmɛɹɪkə//əˈmɛɹɪkə/
America proper noun: a supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
Proper noun
America (plural Americas)
- A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
- The results of my examination ... for the most part allied to plants of the cooler part of America, or the uplands of the tropical latitudes ...1847, Joseph Dalton Hooker, “On the Vegetation of the Galapagos Archipelago, as compared with that of some other Tropical Islands and of the Continent of America”, in Transactions of the Linnean...
- the Marsupials or pouched animals, being found throughout the continent of America, from the United States to Patagonia1890, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 796
- Synonyms:
- Americas
- A country in North America; in full, United States of America.
- For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war...1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237
- So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender.1945 April 16, Harry S. Truman, 10:06 from the start, in MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum...
- A female given name.
- A town in Limburg, Netherlands.
America meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Assamese
America in Bengali
- আমেরিকা
America in Malayalam
- United States of America, the State, the US of A
- അമേരിക്ക, അമേരിക്കൻ ഐക്യനാടുകൾ, അമേരിക്കൻഐക്യനാടുകൾ, ഐക്യനാടുകൾ, വടക്കേഅമേരിക്ക, പ്ലക്ഷദ്വീപം
America in Assamese
- America, the Americas
- আমেৰিকা amerika
- America, United States of America
- আমেৰিকা amerika
Examples of America in a sentence
- Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘America’.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 691:
- America, fuck yeah! / Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah!2004, Trey Parker, “America, Fuck Yeah”:
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, page 74:
- And once gain, America is saved from destruction by the heroes in “MEAL Team Six”.2014 July 27, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 12, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
Synonyms of America
Forms of America
| plural | Americas |
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Origin of America
Learned borrowing from New Latin America, feminine Latinized form of the Italian first name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is an Italian name derived from a Germanic language and is etymologically related to Henry and Emmerich. The earliest known use of America for the (South) American continent is on a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller; see Naming of the Americas for more. Although this is the most widely accepted derivation, it has also been suggested that it could originate from the name of the Amerrisque mountains in Nicaragua (from Mayan), and another disputed theory is that it derives from the surname of Richard Amerike (1440–1503), whose surname is an anglicised form of Welsh ap Meurig (“son of Meurig”), from Old Welsh Mouric, which could be a rendition of Latin Mauritius (compare Maurice).
Words formed from America
- Afro-America
- All-America
- Amasia
- Amerexit
- American
- Americana
- Americaness
- Americaphobe
- Americaphobic
- America's Hat
- Americaward
- Americawards
- America-wide
- Americentric
- Amerikkka
- Amerithrax
- Ameritopia
- Anglo-America
- Aridoamerica
- British America
- Central America
- Chimerica
- Crossroads of America
- Euramerica
- Excited States of America
- Generica
- God bless America
- Gulf of America
- Ibero-America
- Islamerica
- Isramerica
- Jewmerica
- Mesoamerica
- Mexamerica
- Mid-America
- 'Murica
- NorAm
- North America
- Oasisamerica
- South America
- United States of America
- Weimerica
- when America sneezes, the world catches a cold
- Young America
Phrases with America
Words that rhyme with America
Questions about America
- What does America mean?
- America means a supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
- What is America in Bengali?
- America in Bengali is আমেরিকা. See America meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use America in a sentence?
- Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘America’.
- What part of speech is America?
- America is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce America?
- America is pronounced /əˈmɛɹɪkə/ (UK).
Words near America in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: America (page history and authors); America (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); America (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); আমেৰিকা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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