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Princeton's WordNet




  1. United States of America(ProperNoun)

    A country in North America, sharing land borders with Canada and Mexico, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and including Alaska, Hawaii and several territories.


  1. United States of America

    The United States of America, commonly called the United States and America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The 48 contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is west of Canada and east of Russia across the Bering Strait, and the state of Hawaii is in the mid-North Pacific. The country also has five populated and nine unpopulated territories in the Pacific and the Caribbean. At 3.79 million square miles in total and with around 315 million people, the United States is the third largest country by land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The geography and climate of the U.S. is also extremely diverse, with deserts, plains, forests, and mountains that are also home to a wide variety of wildlife. Paleo-indians migrated from Asia to what is now the United States mainland around 12,000 years ago. European colonization began around 1600 and came mostly from England. The United States emerged from thirteen British colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard. Disputes between Great Britain and the American colonies led to the American Revolution. On July 4, 1776, delegates from the thirteen colonies unanimously issued the Declaration of Independence, which established the United States of America. The American Revolutionary War, which ended with the recognition of independence of the United States from the Kingdom of Great Britain, was the first successful war of independence against a European colonial empire. The current Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787; 27 Amendments have since been added to the Constitution. The first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and guarantee many fundamental civil rights and freedoms.

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. united states of america

    Miss District de Columbia and her forty-eight Subsidiaries.


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of united states of america in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of united states of america in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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Translations for united states of america

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  • الولايات المتحدةArabic
  • Estados Unidos de AmericaSpanish
  • Etats-Unis d&#39;AmeriqueFrench
  • ארצות הבריתHebrew
  • Estados Unidos da AmericaPortuguese
  • פאַרייניקטע שטאַטן פון אַמעריקעYiddish

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