America [ uh -mer -i-kuh ] SHOW IPA
/ əˈmɛr ɪ kə / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
Also called the Americas. North and South America , considered together.
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How to use America in a sentence Federal oversight, by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, she says, isn’t going to fix America ’s environmental problems.
If you look at the report that the 400 richest families in America pay a lower effective tax rate than the bottom half of families, it’s appalling.
However, its status in America and several other countries’ trials is still shaky.
Ginsburg was born in 1933 in America , where her family had emigrated decades earlier from Poland and Russia.
In just the first three weeks of the pandemic, as job losses battered America ’s workforce, it added 30,000 sign-ups.
In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America .
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America .
It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America , as it was only then 23 years old.
Asian-America ns are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today.
Latinos, the fastest growing minority group in America , are even more underrepresented in Congress.
As there are still many varieties of the plant grown in America , so there doubtless was when cultivated by the Indians.
Most of my observations are in keeping with Skutch's detailed report of the species in Central America .
Her eldest daughter married in America , and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America .
Had not this Indian plant been discovered, the whole history of some portions of America would have been far different.
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British Dictionary definitions for America
noun
Also called: the Americas the American continent, including North, South, and Central America
Word Origin for America C16: from Americus , Latin form of Amerigo ; after Amerigo Vespucci
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Cultural definitions for America
An American patriotic hymn from the nineteenth century, sung to the tune of the national anthem of Great Britain , “God Save the Queen.” It begins, “My country, 'tis of thee.”
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