America (əˈmɛrɪkə) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | short for the United States of America |
| 2. | Also called: the Americas the American continent, including North, South, and Central America |
| [C16: from Americus, Latin form of Amerigo; after Amerigo | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |