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United States of America
/juːˌnaɪtɨd ˌsteɪts əv əˈmɛɹɨkə/
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What does United States of America mean?
proper noun
- A country located primarily in North America, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and consisting of fifty states (including Alaska and Hawaii) and the District of Columbia, while asserting sovereignty over several territories. Capital: Washington, D.C.. Largest city: New York City.
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IPA pronunciation
/juːˌnaɪtɨd ˌsteɪts əv əˈmɛɹɨkə/
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When the several states of America became independent they called themselves the "United States of America"--a very happy idea.
The territory now occupied or possessed by the United States of America forms about one-twentieth part of the habitable earth.
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This country is largely bound up with the United States of America in business interests which necessitate continual visits between the two countries.
It is hard to believe that the following proceedings took place within the present hundred years in the United States of America, and yet they did.
Compared with the other lands and other races I knew, the United States of America had always seemed to me, speaking modestly, as good as the best of them.