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The definition of America is the term most often used to refer to the United States.

(noun)

An example of the word America is to refer to the 50 states that make up the United States.
An example of a country that is part of the Americas is Canada.

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North America, South America, and the West Indies, considered together
also the Americas
North America
☆ the United States of America

Origin: ModL, name assoc. (1507) by Martin Waldseemüller (1470?-1522?), Ger cosmographer, with Americus Vespucius, Latinized form of Amerigo Vespucci, but < ? Sp Amerrique, name of a mountain range in Nicaragua, used by early explorers for the newly discovered lands < ? AmInd

See America in American Heritage Dictionary 4

The United States.
also the A·mer·i·cas (-kəz) The landmasses and islands of North America, Central America, and South America.

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Americamania

an obsession with America and things American.

the state or condition of being out of sympathy with or against an ideal of American behavior, attitudes, beliefs, etc. —un-American, n., adj.

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