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South America
noun
- a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
South America
noun
- the fourth largest of the continents, bordering on the Caribbean in the north, the Pacific in the west, and the Atlantic in the east and joined to Central America by the Isthmus of Panama. It is dominated by the Andes Mountains, which extend over 7250 km (4500 miles) and include many volcanoes; ranges from dense tropical jungle, desert, and temperate plains to the cold wet windswept region of Tierra del Fuego. Pop (Latin America and the Caribbean): 558 281 000 (2005 est). Area: 17 816 600 sq km (6 879 000 sq miles)
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Example Sentences
The next time all the presidents from North and South America meet will be at the Summit of the Americas in Panama in April.
We shake hands and he immediately begins a monologue about prison breaks and South America.
When most of us think of the premier retirement destination for unrepentant Nazis, our minds immediately turn to South America.
Dr. Neal is a spine surgeon who made a trip to heaven while drowning in a kayak accident in South America.
Hundreds of submissions began to pour in from across Europe, the United States, and South America.
He had meted out stern justice to his own son, when he had banished big Reginald to South America; but he had his virtues.
In no part of the world is smoking so common as in South America; here all classes and all ages use the weed.
Tobacco is found growing along the whole western sea-board of South America until we reach the northern boundaries of Patagonia.
After a voyage of over two months, the coast of South America came in sight.
The foregoing undated report was written after his return to England from South America.
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