Associations to the word «America»

Wiktionary

AMERICA, proper noun. The continents of North and South America, especially when considered to form a single continent; the Americas.
AMERICA, proper noun. The United States of America.
AMERICA AT HOME, noun. (Irish) (informal) (dated) the height of luxury, comfort, or modernity
AMERICA FIRSTER, noun. (US) (historical) A supporter of the America First Party (1944), an isolationist political party.

Dictionary definition

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.
AMERICA, noun. North America and South America and Central America.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats