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America

noun

North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776. Synonyms: the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA.

North America and South America and Central America.

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... population was completely wiped out. Sometimes tortures were added, as at a certain Anatolian town where there was a big Armenian school, in which a number of professors and instructors, some of whom had studied in America, in Scotland, and in Germany, ...

— Crescent and Iron Cross • E. F. Benson

... children are being gathered into the Protestant church who have not an ounce of Christian experience. If reformation was necessary in the times of Luther and Wesley in Europe, and Otterbein and Asbury in America, it is scarcely less necessary now. But some one may say this is putting it too strong. What are the facts? Is it not a fact that the church is drifting away from the more spiritual to the social and intellectual? If the religion ...

— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr

... the officer, "but the Boers have got the scum of Europe and America with them, and you ...

— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn

... born within the shadow of Bunker Hill, your excellency, and that famous spot overlooks Boston, a city of some importance in America." ...

— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... the Delegate of Sweden, Count LEWENHAUPT, took the chair, and said that, for the purpose of proceeding to a permanent organization, it was necessary to elect a President, and that he had the honor to propose for that office the chairman of the delegation of the United States of America, Admiral C. ...

— International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. • Various

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