Other forms: americas
America is the country of fifty stars, Hollywood and New York. Go to America, made in America, the American dream.
Strictly America is two continents and the country is the United States, which is why Latin Americans object to the shorthand — but in English the country sense is overwhelmingly the ordinary one. It is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the navigator who worked out that the landmass was not Asia. Note American as adjective and demonym; and the Americas as the continents.
1nounamericaThe United States of America.
“America has about three hundred and forty million people.”
america is a country.
Also accepted in games: usa, united states, the states, us
New Latin
America
English
America
English, today
america
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America Learned borrowing from New Latin America. New Latin America, feminine Latinized form of the Italian first name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is an Italian - name derived from a gem - language and is etymologically related to Henry and Emmerich. The earliest known use of America for the (South) American continent is on a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller; see Naming of the Americas for more. Although this is the most widely accepted derivation, it has also been suggested that it could originate from the name of the Amerrisque mountains in Nicaragua (from myn -), and another disputed theory is that it derives from the surname of Richard Amerike (1440–1503), whose surname is an anglicised form of Welsh ap Meurig (“son of Meurig”), from owl Mouric, which could be a rendition of Latin Mauritius (compare Maurice).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA