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U. States

U. States is the abbreviation of United States.

Meaning of United States

Proper noun

the United States

  1. (singular, formerly also plural) A country in North America, also including Hawaii in Oceania; in full, United States of America.
    • As soon as the war in Europe had embraced those powers with whom the United States have the most extensive relations there was reason to apprehend that our intercourse with them might be interrupted and our disposition for peace drawn into question by the suspicions too often entertained by...1793 December 3, George Washington, Fifth State of the Union Address
    1. (broadly, singular, formerly also plural) The American federal government.
      • The United States effectively nationalized Fannie and Freddie during the 2008 financial crisis to prevent their collapse.
  2. (in plural) The collection of individual states of the United States of America.
    • life in these United States
  3. (name) A federal nation consisting of several states, whether actual, historical or hypothetical.
    • the Republic of the United States of Brazil (the First Brazilian Republic)

Questions about U. States

What is U. States the abbreviation of?
U. States is the abbreviation of United States.

Words near U. States in the dictionary

  1. U. S. Grants
  2. U. S. of America
  3. U. S. S. R.
  4. U. S. V. I.
  5. U. S. Virgin Islands
  6. U. States
  7. U.A.E.
  8. U.K.
  9. U.N.
  10. U.N.I.C.E.F.
  11. U.P.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: U. States (page history and authors); United States (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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