Americas

See also: Américas

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹɪkəz/, /əˈmɛɹəkəz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪkəz

Proper noun

the Americas pl (plural only)

2. A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole.

   Synonyms: America, New World

   Hypernym: Western Hemisphere

   • 2007 January 19, Grace Glueck, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     In tracing the relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the curators took a universalist approach.

   • 2026 January 14, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly, Brian O’Keefe, Ian Mount, Grady McGregor, “Banks Ready Battle Plans to Save Their Credit Card Businesses”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 January 2026:

     With Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” for the Americas in effect, that raises an important question: Does the White House have enough leverage to force the Chinese to give ground?

Derived terms

• americate
• americium

Translations

North and South America

• Abenaki: Pastonki
• Afrikaans: Amerika (af)
• Albanian: Amerikë f (indefinite), Amerika (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: አሜሪካ (ʾämerika)
• Antillean Creole: Améwik f, Amérik f

  Martinican Creole: Anméwik f, Anmérik f

• Arabic: أَمْرِيكَا (ar) f (ʔamrīkā), أَمِيرِكَا f (ʔamīrikā), أَمْرِيكَة (ar) f (ʔamrīka), أَمْرِيكَتَانِ (ar) f du (ʔamrīkatāni) ((the two) Americas), أميريكا f

  Egyptian Arabic: امريكا f, امريكتين f du

  Hijazi Arabic: أمريكا f (ʔamrīka)

  Moroccan Arabic: أميريكا f (amīrīkā)

• Aragonese: America f, Americas f pl (rare)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܡܹܝܪܝܼܟܵܐ f (āmērīkā), ܐܵܡܹܝܪܝܼܟܬܹܝܢ f du (āmērīktēn)

• Armenian: Ամերիկա (hy) (Amerika)
• Assamese: আমেৰিকা (amerika)
• Asturian: América (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Amerika (az)
• Basque: Amerika (eu)
• Belarusian: Аме́рыка f (Amjéryka), Амэ́рыка f (Améryka) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: মার্কিন (bn) (markin)
• Bulgarian: Аме́рика f (Amérika)
• Bunun: Amulika
• Burmese: အမေရိက (a.meri.ka.)
• Buryat: Америкэ (Amjerike)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Аме́рика f (Améryka)
• Catalan: Amèrica (ca) f, Amèriques f pl
• Chechen: Америка (Amerika)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏰᏟ (ameyetli), ᎠᎹᏰᏟ (amayetli)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 美洲 (mei⁵ zau¹), 亞美利加 / 亚美利加 (aa³ mei⁵ lei⁶ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 美洲 (zh) (Měizhōu), 亞美利加 / 亚美利加 (zh) (Yàměilìjiā), 亞美利加洲 / 亚美利加洲 (Yàměilìjiā zhōu)

• Corsican: America (co) f, Americhi f pl (rare, dated)
• Czech: Amerika (cs) f
• Danish: Amerika (da) n
• Dutch: Amerika (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ameriko (eo)
• Estonian: Ameerika (et)
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: Amerikka (fi)
• French: Amérique (fr) f, Amériques (fr) f pl
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Amearika (fy) n, Amerika (fy) n

• Galician: América (gl) f
• Georgian: ამერიკა (ameriḳa)
• German: Amerika (de) n
• Greek: Αμερική (el) f (Amerikí)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀμερικῆ f (Amerikê)

• Gujarati: અમેરિકા (amerikā)
• Haitian Creole: Amerik f
• Haryanvi: अ़मरेख्या
• Hawaiian: ʻAmelika
• Hebrew: אָמֶרִיקָה (he) f (amérika)
• Hindi: अमेरिका (hi) m (amerikā), अमरीका (hi) m (amrīkā)
• Hungarian: Amerika (hu)
• Icelandic: Ameríka (is) f
• Igbo: Amerikas
• Indonesian: Amerika (id), benua Amerika
• Ingrian: Amerikka
• Inuktitut: ᐊᒥᐊᓕᑲ (amialika)
• Irish: Meiriceá (ga)
• Italian: America (it) f, Americhe (it) f pl (rare, dated)
• Jamaican Creole: Amoerka, Amoerkaz pl, Amerika, Amerikaz pl
• Japanese: アメリカ州 (アメリカしゅう, Amerika shū), 米州 (ja) (べいしゅう, Beishū), (亜米利加 (ja) (Amerika))
• Kalenjin: Amerika
• Kamba: Amerika
• Kannada: ಅಮೆರಿಕ (amerika)
• Kazakh: Америка (kk) (Amerika)
• Khmer: ទ្វីបអាមេរិក (tviip ’aameirik), អាមេរិក (ʼaameirɨk)
• Kikuyu: Amerika
• Korean: 아메리카 (ko) (Amerika), 미주(美洲) (ko) (Miju)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەمەریکا (emerîka)

  Northern Kurdish: Amerîka (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: Америка (ky) (Amerika)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: Amerika
• Lakota: Khéya-Wíta
• Lao: ອະເມລິກາ (ʼa mē li kā), ອາເມລິກາ (ʼā mē li kā), ທະວີບອະເມລິກາ (tha wīpʼa mē li kā), ທະວີບອາເມລິກາ (tha wīpʼā mē li kā)
• Latin: Amerī̆ca (la) f (New Latin)
• Latvian: Amerika f
• Lithuanian: Amerika (lt) f
• Livonian: Amērik
• Louisiana Creole: Amérik f, Lamérik f
• Lü: ᦀᦵᦙᦟᦲᧉᦂᦱ (˙ʼmelii²k̇aa)
• Luhya: Amerika, Amerika
• Luo: Amerika
• Macedonian: Аме́рика (mk) f (Amérika)
• Malay: Amerika (ms)
• Malayalam: അമേരിക്ക (ml) (amērikka)
• Maltese: l-Amerika f
• Māori: Amerika
• Maranao: Amirika
• Marathi: अमेरिका m (amerikā)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Америке (Amerike)

• Marshallese: Amedka
• Meru: Amerika
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Америк (Amerik)

  Mongolian script: ᠠᠮᠧᠷᠢᠺᠠ (amērika)

• Moore: Ameriki
• Navajo: Kéyah dah siʼánígíí
• Norman: Améthique f, Améthiques f pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Amerika (no) n

  Nynorsk: Amerika n

• Occitan: America (oc) f
• Odia: ଆମେରିକା (āmerikā)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Амєрїка f (Amerika)

  Glagolitic: Ⰰⰿⰵⱃⰻⰽⰰ f (Amerika)

• Ossetian: Америкӕ (Amerikæ)
• Pannonian Rusyn: Америка f (Amerika)
• Pashto: امريکا (ps) f (amrikā)
• Persian:

  Dari: اَمْرِیکَا (amrīkā), آمْرِیکَا (āmrīkā)

  Iranian Persian: آمْریکا (âmrikâ), اَمْریکا (amrikâ)

• Picard: Amérikes f pl, Amérike f
• Polish: Ameryka (pl) f
• Portuguese: América (pt) f, Américas (pt) f pl
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਅਮਰੀਕਾ (pa) m (amarīkā)

• Quechua: Awya Yala
• Réunion Creole French: Amérik f
• Romanian: America (ro) f
• Russian: Аме́рика (ru) f (Amérika)
• Sanskrit: अमरेखिका f (amarekhikā)
• Sardinian: Amèrica f, Amèricas f pl (rare, dated)
• Scots: Americae, Americaes pl
• Scottish Gaelic: Aimeireaga f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Амѐрика f

  Latin: Amèrika (sh) f

• Sicilian: Mèrica (scn) f
• Silesian: Amerika f
• Sinhalese: ඇමරිකාව (si) (æmarikāwa)
• Slovak: Amerika (sk) f
• Slovene: Amêrika (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Amerika f

  Upper Sorbian: Amerika f

• Spanish: América (es) f
• Swahili: Amerika (sw)
• Swedish: Amerika (sv) n
• Tagalog: Amerika (tl)
• Tajik: Амрико (tg) (Amriko)
• Tamil: அமெரிக்கா (ta) (amerikkā)
• Tatar: Америка (Ameriqa)
• Telugu: అమెరికా (te) (amerikā)
• Thai: ทวีปอเมริกา (tá-wîip à-mee-rí-gaa), อเมริกา (th) (à-mee-rí-gaa)
• Tibetan: ཨ་མེ་རི་ཀ (a me ri ka)
• Tigrinya: ኣመሪካ (ʾamärika)
• Turkish: Amerika (tr)
• Turkmen: Amerika
• Ukrainian: Аме́рика f (Améryka)
• Urdu: اَمْرِیکَہ m (amrīka), اَمْرِیکا m (amrīkā)
• Uyghur: ئامېرىكا (amërika)
• Uzbek: Amerika (uz)
• Veps: Amerik
• Vietnamese: Châu Mỹ (vi) (洲美), Mỹ Lợi Gia, Mỹ (vi)
• Volapük: Merop (vo), (obsolete) Melop
• Võro: Ameeriga
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: yr Amerig f
• Yakut: Америка (Amerika)
• Yiddish: אַמעריקע f (amerike)
• Yup'ik: Ami'ulikaq
• Zhuang: Meijcouh

See also

continentsedit

• Africa
• Antarctica
• Asia
• Australia, Oceania
• Europe
• North America
• South America

Anagrams

• macarise, mesaraic