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===Alternative forms===
===Alternative forms===
* {{sense|the United States of America}} {{l|en|Merica}}/{{l|en|'Murica}}/{{l|en|'murica}} {{qualifier|nonstandard, often jocular or representing dialect}}
* {{sense|North and South America}} {{l|en|Americas}}
* {{sense|North and South America}} {{l|en|Americas}}
* {{sense|the United States of America}} {{l|en|Merica}}/{{l|en|'Murica}}/{{l|en|'murica}} {{qualifier|nonstandard, often jocular or representing dialect}}

===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|/əˈmɛɹɪkə/|lang=en}}
* {{IPA|/əˈmɛɹɪkə/|lang=en}}
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{{en-proper noun|Americas}}
{{en-proper noun|Americas}}


# The [[continent]]s of [[North America|North]] and [[South America]], especially when considered to form a single continent; the [[Americas]].
#* '''2009''', {{w|Diarmaid MacCulloch}}, ''A History of Christianity'' (Penguin 2010), page 691:
#*: Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘'''America'''’.
# The [[United States of America]].
# The [[United States of America]].
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|passage=In '''America''' alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
|passage=In '''America''' alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
# The [[Americas]].
#* '''2009''', {{w|Diarmaid MacCulloch}}, ''A History of Christianity'' (Penguin 2010), page 691:
#*: Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘'''America'''’.


====Usage notes====
====Usage notes====
In English, "America" typically refers to the United States of America, with "American" typically referring to people and things from that country. The sense of "the Americas" is uncommon in contemporary English, but is still found in some specific circumstances, such as in reference to the [[w:Organization of American States|Organization of American States]].
Residents of the United States of America may refer to their country as the "United States" (more formal), "America" (common and often patriotic), "the U.S.A."/"the U.S.", or simply "the States" (informal). Residents of Alaska, the United States of America's northernmost state, refer to the mainland of the USA as "the [[lower 48]]" (informal).

Residents of the [[United Kingdom]] typically refer to the United States of America as "America". Residents of [[Canada]] less frequently refer to the United States of America as "America", referring otherwise to "the United States" (more formal), "the U.S." (common), or simply "the States" (informal). Peoples from Latin American countries usually use "America" to mean the whole continent; they rarely use the term "Americas", which is mostly used for that in the United States.

The plural form "the Americas" is common when referring to North and South America together, to avoid ambiguity. Seen as a single continent, it is commonly "the continent of America".


====Quotations====
====Quotations====
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====Synonyms====
====Synonyms====
* {{qualifier|United States of America}} ''see'' '''[[United States of America#Synonyms]]'''
* {{qualifier|North and South America}} [[Americas]]
* {{qualifier|North and South America}} [[Americas]]
* {{qualifier|United States of America}} ''see'' '''[[United States of America#Synonyms]]'''

====See also====
====See also====
* {{list:continents/en}}
* {{list:continents/en}}


====Translations====
====Translations====
{{trans-top|continent of America (see also ''Americas'')}}
* Abenaki: {{t|abe|Pastonki}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|Amerika}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|Amerika|f}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|أَمْرِيكَا|f}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|Ամերիկա}}
* Asturian: {{t+|ast|América|f}}
* Basque: {{t+|eu|Amerika}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|Аме́рыка|f|sc=Cyrl}}, {{qualifier|Taraškievica Orthography}} {{t|be|Амэ́рыка|f|sc=Cyrl}}
* Bengali: {{t|bn|আমেরিকা|tr=amerika}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|Аме́рика|f}}
* Burmese: {{t|my|အမေရိက|sc=Mymr}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|亞美利加洲|sc=Hani}}, {{t+|cmn|亚美利加洲|tr=[[Yàměilìjiā Zhōu]]|sc=Hani}}, {{t+|cmn|美洲|tr=[[Měizhōu]]|sc=Hani}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|Amerika|f}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|Amerika}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|Amerika|n}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|Ameriko}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|Ameerika}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|Amerikka}}
* French: {{t+|fr|Amérique|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|ამერიკა|sc=Geor}}
* German: {{t+|de|Amerika|n}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|Αμερική|f}}
* Hawaiian: {{t|haw|ʻAmelika}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|אמריקה|f|tr=Amerika}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|अमेरिका|m|tr=amērikā}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|Amerika}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|Ameríka|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|Amerika}}, {{t|id|benua Amerika}}
* Irish: {{t+|ga|Meiriceá}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|America|f}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|アメリカ州|tr=Amerika-shū}} ({{t|ja|亜米利加|tr=Amerika}}), {{t|ja|米州|tr=べいしゅう, Beishū}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|Améthique|f}}
* Kalenjin: {{t|kln|Amerika}}
* Kamba: {{t|kam|Amerika}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|Америка|sc=Cyrl}}
* Khmer: {{t|km|ទ្វីបអាមេរិក|tr=tviip ’aameirik|sc=Khmr}}, {{t|km|អាមេរិក|tr=’aameirik|sc=Khmr}}
* Kikuyu: {{t|ki|Amerika}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|아메리카|tr=Amerika|sc=Hang}}, {{t+|ko|미주|tr=Miju|sc=Kore}} ({{t+|ko|美洲|sc=Kore}})
* Kurdish:
*: Kurmanji: {{t+|ku|Amerîka|f}}
*: Sorani: {{t|ckb|ئەمەریکا|sc=ku-Arab}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|Америка|sc=Cyrl}}
* Lakota: {{t|lkt|Khéya Wíta}}
* Lao: {{t|lo|ອະເມລິກາ|sc=Laoo}}, {{t|lo|ອາເມລິກາ|sc=Laoo}}, {{t|lo|ທະວີບອະເມລິກາ|sc=Laoo}}, {{t|lo|ທະວີບອາເມລິກາ|sc=Laoo}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|America|f}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|Amerika|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|Amerika|f}}
* Livonian: {{t|liv|Amērik}}
* Luhya: {{t|luy|Amerika}}, {{t|luy|Amerika}}
* Luo: {{t|luo|Amerika}}
* Lü: {{t|khb|ᦀᦙᦵᦟᦲᧉᦂᦱ|sc=Knda}}
* Macedonian: {{t+|mk|Аме́рика|f}}
* Malay: {{t|ms|Amerika}}
* Maltese: {{t|mt|Amerika|alt=L-Amerika}}
* Marathi: {{t|mr|अमेरिका|m|tr=amērikā|sc=Deva}}
* Marshallese: {{t|mh|Amedka}}
* Meru: {{t|mer|Amerika}}
* Mongolian: {{t|mn|Америк|sc=Cyrl}}
* Nahuatl: {{t|nah|Ixachitlan}}
* Navajo: {{t|nv|Kéyah dah siʼánígíí}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|America|f}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|آمریکا|tr=Âmrikâ}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|Ameryka|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|América|f}}
* Punjabi: {{t|pa|ਅਮਰੀਕਾ|sc=Guru}}
* Quechua: {{t|qu|Awya Yala}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|America|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|Аме́рика|f}}
* Scots: {{t|sco|Americae}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|Aimeireaga|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|Америка|f|sc=Cyrl}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|Amerika|f}}
* Sinhalese: {{t|si|ඇමරිකාව|sc=Sinh}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|Amerika|f}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|Amêrika|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|América|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|marekiana}}, {{t|sw|Marekani}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|Amerika}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|Amerika}}
* Tajik: {{t+|tg|Амрико|sc=Cyrl}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|అమెరికా}}
* Thai: {{t|th|ทวีปอเมริกา|tr=tá-wêep a-may-rí-gaa}}, {{t|th|อเมริกา|tr=a-may-rí-gaa}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|Amerika}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|Amerika}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|Аме́рика|f}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|امریکہ|m|tr=amerikā, amrīkā}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|Amerika}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|Châu Mỹ}} ({{t|vi|洲美}}), {{t|vi|Mỹ Lợi Gia}}, {{t+|vi|Mỹ}}
* Volapük: {{t+|vo|Merop}}, {{qualifier|obsolete}} {{t|vo|Melop}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|אַמעריקע}}
* Yup'ik: {{t|esu|Ami'ulikaq}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|United States of America}}
{{trans-see|United States of America}}
{{trans-see|Americas}}


===Statistics===
===Statistics===

Revision as of 17:56, 10 December 2015

See also: América, Amèrica, and americà

English

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Etymology

From a Latinized form of the Italian forename of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). For more, see the Latin entry America and the Wikipedia article on the etymology of America.

Alternative forms

  • (the United States of America): Merica/'Murica/'murica (nonstandard, often jocular or representing dialect)
  • (North and South America): Americas

Pronunciation

Proper noun

America (plural Americas)

  1. The United States of America.
  2. The Americas.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Penguin 2010), page 691:
      Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘America’.

Usage notes

In English, "America" typically refers to the United States of America, with "American" typically referring to people and things from that country. The sense of "the Americas" is uncommon in contemporary English, but is still found in some specific circumstances, such as in reference to the Organization of American States.

Quotations

  • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II.402:
    Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.

Synonyms

See also

Translations

United States of America — see United States of America
Americas — see Americas

Statistics

Italian

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Proper noun

America f

  1. (deprecated template usage) (continent) the Americas

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Feminine form of Americus, the Latinized form of the forename of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512).

First recorded in 1507 (together with the related term Amerigen) in the Cosmographiae Introductio, apparently written by Matthias Ringmann, in reference to South America;[1] first applied to both North and South America by Mercator in 1538. Amerigen means "land of Amerigo" and derives from Amerigo and gen, the accusative case of Greek gē "earth". America accorded with the feminine names of Asia, Africa, and Europa.[2]

(deprecated template usage) Amerigo is the Italian form of a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "gem" is not valid. See WT:LOL. personal name. For more, see the Wikipedia article on the etymology of America.

Proper noun

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  1. (New Latin) America

Inflection

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References

  1. ^ John R. Hebert, "The Map That Named America: Library Acquires 1507 Waldseemüller Map of the World" ([1]), Information Bulletin, Library of Congress
  2. ^ Toby Lester, "Putting America on the Map", Smithsonian, 40:9 (December 2009)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) America.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

America f (plural Americi)

  1. America

Declension

Declension of America
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) Americă America (niște) Americi Americile
genitive/dative (unei) Americi Americii (unor) Americi Americilor
vocative America, Americă Americilor

Derived terms

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