North America

noun

1. the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Denali, 20,300 feet (6,187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 square miles (24,242,400 square kilometers).

North America

noun

1. the third largest continent, linked with South America by the Isthmus of Panama and bordering on the Arctic Ocean, the N Pacific, the N Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean. It consists generally of a great mountain system (the Western Cordillera) extending along the entire W coast, actively volcanic in the extreme north and south, with the Great Plains to the east and the Appalachians still further east, separated from the Canadian Shield by an arc of large lakes (Great Bear, Great Slave, Winnipeg, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario); reaches its greatest height of 6194 m (20 320 ft) in Mount McKinley, Alaska, and its lowest point of 85 m (280 ft) below sea level in Death Valley, California, and ranges from snowfields, tundra, and taiga in the north to deserts in the southwest and tropical forests in the extreme south. Pop: 332 156 000 (2005 est). Area: over 24 000 000 sq km (9 500 000 sq miles)

North America

1. Third-largest continent (after Asia and Africa), comprising Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America.

Other Word Forms

• North American adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of North America¹

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

The company estimates that about 60% of the install base has moved to Windows 11, with the conversion progressing at a faster pace in the enterprise space and in North America, Lores says.

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The team argues that this deep heat source is not a leftover feature from when North America separated from Northwest Africa 180 million years ago, which had long been the prevailing view.

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Rival Amazon.com launched its AI-powered shopping assistant—Rufus—last year, and it recently introduced sponsored prompts to its shopping assistant in North America.

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Group sales and revenue are down in two markets—North America and China—and soft in Europe.

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In all, he has overseen 215 games in North America and a move to Celtic would be his first managerial role in Europe.

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