Meaning of America | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
2. A country in North America; in full, United States of America.
3. A female given name.
4. A town in Limburg, Netherlands.

Equivalents

Examples

“The results of my examination ... for the most part allied to plants of the cooler part of America, or the uplands of the tropical latitudes ...”

“the Marsupials or pouched animals, being found throughout the continent of America, from the United States to Patagonia”

“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’.”

“For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.”

“So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender.”

“America, fuck yeah! / Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah!”

“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.”

“And once gain, America is saved from destruction by the heroes in “MEAL Team Six”.”

“Captain America, how did he get his powers? I think he... he got bitten by America.”

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