British America

American  

noun

1. British North America.

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Example Sentences

British America Tobacco's Wheaton said his company was trying to do this "rapidly."

From Reuters • Mar. 18, 2022

When Benjamin Franklin was a teenager in British America, penning letters to the editor to his local paper, two asteroids in our solar system split apart — unbeknownst to him, or any human.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2022

A history professor at Louisiana State University, she writes, “Most colonizing schemes that took root in 17th- and 18th-century British America were built on privilege and subordination, not any kind of proto-democracy.”

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2016

In 1998, archaeologists from East Carolina University found a ten-carat gold signet ring here engraved with a prancing lion or horse, an unprecedented find in early British America.

From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2015

Some were in New York City, which remained the capital of wartime British America; the rest, including Arnold’s American Legion, were in the South.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen