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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
A·mer·i·ca       [uh-mer-i-kuh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.United States.
2.North America.
3.South America.
4.Also called the Americas. North and South America, considered together.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
A·mer·i·ca       (ə-měr'ĭ-kə)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. The United States.
  2. also the A·mer·i·cas (-kəz) The landmasses and islands of North America, Central America, and South America.

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America 
1507, in Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio," from Mod.L. Americanus, after Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it. His published works put forward the idea that it was a new continent, and he was first to call it Novus Mundus "New World." Amerigo is more easily Latinized than Vespucci. The name Amerigo is Gmc., said to derive from Goth. Amalrich, lit. "work-ruler." The O.E. form of the name has come down as surnames Emmerich, Emery, etc. It. fem. form merged into Amelia. Amerika "U.S. society viewed as racist, fascist, oppressive, etc." first attested 1969; the spelling is Ger., but may also suggest the KKK.

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america

noun
1. 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 [syn: United States
2. North America and South America and Central America 

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Young America, MN (city, FIPS 72112) Location: 44.78075 N, 93.91532 W
Population (1990): 1354 (470 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 55397

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