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land of opportunity

land of opportunity proper noun: the United States.

Proper noun (1)

the land of opportunity

  1. (dated, idiomatic, informal) The United States.
    • They say America is the land of opportunity. Opportunity for what? For children to run in the dirty streets? - Mr Mousekewitz in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
    • It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the...2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Land of Opportunity

the Land of Opportunity

  1. An unofficial nickname for Arkansas, a state of the United States.

Questions about land of opportunity

What does land of opportunity mean?
Land of opportunity means the United States.
What part of speech is land of opportunity?
Land of opportunity is a proper noun.

Words near land of opportunity in the dictionary

  1. Land of Israel
  2. Land of Liberty
  3. Land of Lincoln
  4. land of milk and honey
  5. land of Nod
  6. land of opportunity
  7. land of plenty
  8. Land of Punt
  9. Land of Smiles
  10. Land of Song
  11. Land of Steady Habits

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