America
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4.
Also called the Americas. North and South America, considered together.
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| —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 | |
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America
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| 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. |
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Word Origin & History
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. The 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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Since then, migratory beekeeping has become widespread in america.
The age of reason resulted in only a brief upsurge in deistic thought in america.
It is supposed to be the place where tennis first started in america.
The album was also favourably received by critics in north america.
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