America

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ə.ˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/

Proper noun

1. The United States of America.
2. The Americas.

   • 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’.

3. A female given name.
4. A town in Limburg, Netherlands.

Synonyms

• (United States of America) see United States of America#Synonyms
• (North and South America) Americas

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