Definitions for AMÉRICA
əˈmɛr ɪ kəamÉri·ca

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.1 / 16 votes

1. United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.noun

   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

2. Americanoun

   North America and South America and Central America

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.3 / 9 votes

1. Americanoun

   The landmass now divided into the continents of North and South America.

2. Americanoun

   The United States of America.

3. Etymology: From Americus, Latinized form of the forename of (1451-1512), Italian explorer.

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1. America

   The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south. The U.S. has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital is Washington, D.C. and the most populous city and financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americans migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago, and advanced cultures began to appear later on. These advanced cultures had almost completely declined by the time Europeans arrived in North America and began to colonize the continent. The United States emerged from the Thirteen British Colonies when disputes with the British Crown over taxation and political representation led to the American Revolution (1765–1791), which established independence and the United States as the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of liberal democracy. In the late 18th century, the U.S. began expanding across North America, gradually obtaining new territories, sometimes through war, frequently displacing Native Americans, and admitting new states. By 1848, the United States spanned the continent from east to west. The controversy surrounding the practice of slavery culminated in the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the American Civil War (1861–1865). With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. By 1900, the United States had become the world's largest economy, and the Spanish–American War and World War I established the country as a world power. After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. entered World War II on the Allied side. The aftermath of the war left the United States and the Soviet Union as the world's two superpowers. During the Cold War, both countries engaged in a struggle for ideological dominance but avoided direct military conflict. They also competed in the Space Race, which culminated in the 1969 American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Simultaneously, the civil rights movement (1954–1968) led to legislation abolishing state and local Jim Crow laws and other codified racial discrimination against African Americans. The Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991 ended the Cold War, leaving the United States as the world's sole superpower. In 2001, following the September 11 attacks, the United States became a lead member of the Global War on Terrorism, which included the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the Iraq War (2003–2011). The United States is a federal republic with three separate branches of government, including a bicameral legislature. It is a liberal democracy and has a market economy. It ranks very high in international measures of quality of life, income and wealth, economic competitiveness, human rights, innovation, and education; it has low levels of perceived corruption. The United States has the highest median income per person of any polity in the world. It has high levels of incarceration and inequality and lacks universal health care. As a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, the U.S. has been shaped by centuries of immigration. The United States is a highly developed country, and its economy accounts for approximately a quarter of global GDP and is the world's largest by GDP at market exchange rates. By value, the United States is the world's largest importer and second-largest exporter. Although it accounts for just over 4.2% of the world's total population, the U.S. holds over 30% of the total wealth in the world, the largest share held by any country. The United States is a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States, NATO, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, and is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. The country is responsible for more than a third of global military spending and is the foremost military power in the world, as well as being a leading political, cultural, and scientific force.

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1. America

   America generally refers to the continent that includes North America, South America, and Central America. However, it is often used to specifically refer to the United States of America, which is a country located in North America.

WikidataRate this definition:2.6 / 5 votes

1. America

   America is an American folk rock band that originally consisted of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring No. 1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist. Their recording success stretched throughout the 1970s; some of the band's best known songs are "A Horse with No Name", "Sister Golden Hair", "Ventura Highway", "Tin Man", "Daisy Jane", and "Lonely People". George Martin produced seven of their albums. Peek left the group in 1977 to pursue a solo career, but Beckley and Bunnell returned to the top 10 as a duo with "You Can Do Magic" in 1982. As of at least 2009, America performs over 100 shows per year. On January 16, 2007, America released Here & Now, the band's first major label studio album in over twenty years.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:4.6 / 11 votes

1. America

   including both North and South, 9000 m. in length, varies from 3400 m. to 28 m. in breadth, contains 16½ millions of sq. m., is larger than Europe and Africa together, but is a good deal smaller than Asia; bounded throughout by the Atlantic on the E. and the Pacific on the W.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:4.8 / 14 votes

1. america

   One of the great divisions of the earth’s surface, so called from Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine navigator, who visited South America in 1499. It is composed of two vast peninsulas called North and South America, extending in a continuous line 9000 miles, connected by the Isthmus of Panama or Darien, which is only 28 miles wide at its narrowest part. The physical features of this large continent are on a most gigantic scale, comprising the greatest lakes, rivers, valleys, etc., in the world; and its discovery, which may be said to have doubled the habitable globe, is an event so grand and interesting that nothing parallel to it can be expected to occur again in the history of mankind. Upon its discovery, in the latter half of the 15th century, colonists, settlers, warriors, statesmen, and adventurers of all nations began to flock to its shores, until after a lapse of nearly four centuries of wars, struggles, civilization, progress, and amalgamation of the more powerful races, and weakness and decay of the effete, it ranks in wealth and enlightenment as the first of the great divisions of the earth. Of the different races, governments, etc., occupying its area, it is not necessary here to speak; events of importance in their histories will be found under appropriate headings in this work.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 61 votes

1. America

   America A-(pro)-Mer(Mercia-Mercy)- I( being)-Ca( female gender specific) A merciful lady.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on November 29, 2020  

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   america

   America is a continent in the western hemisphere visually made of two triangle shaped wide territories, North and South, united by a central isthmus.

   
   

   Submitted by alfgood on November 22, 2020  

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   america

   America is a landmass comprising the totality of North, Central and South America.

   It is said that humans first settled in America from Asia between 42,000 and 17,000 years ago, followed by a second migration of Na-Dene speakers also from Asia, and then Inuit around 3500 BCE.

   Etymology: Emericus > Amerigo Vespucci > America

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on November 10, 2020  

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   america

   America is the second most extensive continent in the world.

   America was populated, according to the most accepted theory nowadays, approximately 40 thousand years ago.

   Etymology: Amerigo Vespucci > America

   
   

   Submitted by jasonb on November 11, 2020  

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. america

   Song lyrics by america -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by america on the Lyrics.com website.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:5.0 / 8 votes

1. America

   After Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine adventurer, who chanced to be at Seville when Columbus was preparing for his second voyage to the West. With Ojeda, Vespucci embarked upon an independent expedition. Subsequently he made further voyages in Portuguese ships, and discovered the Bay of All Saints. His remaining days were spent in the service of the King of Spain, preparing charts and prescribed routes to the New World. Although these official publications bore his signature, Vespucci never claimed to have discovered the great Western Continent. A wonderful narrative of his voyages, however, purporting to have been written by Vespucci, found its way into the hands of Martin Waldseemuller of Freiburg, Baden. This he translated, and caused it to be published by a bookseller at St Die in Lorraine in 1507. In his preface to the work Waldseemuller suggested that the newly discovered country should be called America, after the author, who had visited it. Hence the name really originated in Germany.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. AMERICA

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, America is ranked #58604 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The America surname appeared 346 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname America.
   
   54.9% or 190 total occurrences were White.
   19.6% or 68 total occurrences were Black.
   11.5% or 40 total occurrences were Asian.
   10.1% or 35 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.7% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Land

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'AMÉRICA' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #964

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'AMÉRICA' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1324

How to pronounce AMÉRICA?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say AMÉRICA in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of AMÉRICA in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of AMÉRICA in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of AMÉRICA in a Sentence

1. Bill Clinton:

   The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

2. Michelle Obama:

   This is the America on display for the next generation,a nation that is underperforming not simply on matters of policy but on matters of character.

3. George W. Bush:

   If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

4. Jason Miyares:

   I have said before – in America about the only state-sanctioned form of bigotry is anti-Asian bigotry, and it is wrong and we’re going to hold folks accountable, to the extent that withholding of any of these awards at Thomas Jefferson High School was based on race, national origin or any other protected status under the Virginia human rights act, that is unlawful.

5. Harry Dunn:

   I guess it is America. It shouldn't be.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=AMÉRICA
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/America
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=AMÉRICA
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#America
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
8. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=AMÉRICA
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html