United States of America
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˌnaɪtɨd ˌsteɪts əv əˈmɛɹɨkə/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
enpr: yo͞o-nīʹ-təd stātsʹ əv ə-mĕrʹ-ə-kə
ipa: /juˌnaɪtəd ˌsteɪts əv əˈmɛɹəkə/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
rhymes: -ɛɹɪkə
Forms: form: the United States of America
Etymology: First attested in 1776, see names of the United States.
Senses: examples: text: Mexico and Canada border the United States of America.
text: Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congreſs assembled did on the 15th day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of Newhampſhire, Maſsachusetts-bay, Rhodeiſland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in the Words following, viz.[…]
ARTICLE I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America."
ref: 1777 November 15 [1776], Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, Philadelphia: Second Continental Congress, →OCLC, page 1:
text: As we here at home contemplate our own duties, our own responsibilities, let us think and think hard of the example which is being set for us by our fighting men. Our soldiers and sailors are members of well disciplined units. But they are still and forever individuals -- free individuals. They are farmers, and workers, businessmen, professional men, artists, clerks. They are the United States of America. That is why they fight. We too are the United States of America. That is why we must work and sacrifice. It is for them. It is for us. It is for victory.
ref: 1942 April 28, Franklin Roosevelt, 30:57 from the start, in Fireside Chat 21: On Sacrifice, Miller Center:
text: “The structure is deteriorating. The roof was leaking. The floor is sinking,” Mr. Biden said in a speech in front of the tunnel, the oldest in the Northeast, where the crowd included dozens of union workers. “This is the United States of America, for God’s sake. We know better than that.”
ref: 2023 January 30, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Mark Walker, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Visits Decrepit Rail Tunnel to Promote $1 Trillion Infrastructure Law”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023, Politics:
glosses: 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.
wikipedia: Names of the United States
Synonyms: word: 'Murica
word: America
word: Amerika
word: Amerikkka
word: Burgerland
word: Columbia
word: Eagleland
word: Excited States
word: Excited States of America
word: Great Satan
word: Gringoland
word: Gringolandia
word: Gringostan
word: Jewmerica
word: JewSA
word: Jewnited Snakes
word: Jewnited States
word: land of opportunity
word: land of the free
word: States
word: Stateside
word: Uncle Sam
word: United States
word: United States of America
word: United States of North America
word: US
word: U.S.
word: USA
word: U.S.A.
word: U. S. A.
word: Usania
word: Union
word: Usona
word: Usonia
word: Washington
word: Yankland
word: Yankeeland
word: Yankee land
Hypernyms: word: country
word: federal country
word: federation
Meronyms: word: blue state
word: Dixie
word: Dixieland
word: Jesusland
word: purple state
word: red state
word: Alabama
word: Alaska
word: Arizona
word: Arkansas
word: California
word: Colorado
word: Connecticut
word: Delaware
word: Florida
word: Georgia
word: Hawaii
word: Idaho
word: Illinois
word: Indiana
word: Iowa
word: Kansas
word: Kentucky
word: Louisiana
word: Maine
word: Maryland
word: Massachusetts
word: Michigan
word: Minnesota
word: Mississippi
word: Missouri
word: Montana
word: Nebraska
word: Nevada
word: New Hampshire
word: New Jersey
word: New Mexico
word: New York
word: North Carolina
word: North Dakota
word: Ohio
word: Oklahoma
word: Oregon
word: Pennsylvania
word: Rhode Island
word: South Carolina
word: South Dakota
word: Tennessee
word: Texas
word: Utah
word: Vermont
word: Virginia
word: West Virginia
word: Wisconsin
word: Wyoming
Derived terms: Excited States of America
United States of Canada
Usonia
Related terms: word: American Empire
word: Confederate States of America
word: lower 48
word: United Statesian
word: United Statesman
word: U.S. American
word: United States of Canada
word: American