See America in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"en:Towns in Limburg, Netherlands",
"en:Towns in the Netherlands"
],
"glosses": [
"A town in Limburg, Netherlands."
],
"links": [
[
"Limburg",
"Limburg#English"
],
[
"Netherlands",
"Netherlands#English"
]
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:",
"text": "For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, page 74:",
"text": "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014 July 27, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 12, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:",
"text": "And once gain, America is saved from destruction by the heroes in “MEAL Team Six”.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 April 3, Roisin Conaty & al., Big Fat Quiz of Everything, Channel 4",
"text": "Captain America, how did he get his powers?\nI think he... he got bitten by America."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The United States of America."
],
"links": [
[
"United States of America",
"United States of America"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:Q30"
],
"wikidata": [
"Q30"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/"
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈmɛɹ.ə.kə/",
"note": "weak vowel merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈmɛɹ.kə/",
"note": "weak vowel merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛɹɪkə"
},
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{
"ipa": "/əˈmɚ.ɪ.kə/"
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈmɚ.ə.kə/"
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.keɪ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kɔː/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"North",
"South-America"
],
"word": "Americas"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"of America"
],
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "United States of America#Synonyms"
},
{
"sense": "the United States of America): Merica/ 'Murica/ 'murica (nonstandard, often jocular or representing dialect",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"slang"
],
"word": "Amerikkka"
},
{
"tags": [
"North",
"South-America"
],
"word": "Americas"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Amerigo Vespucci",
"Martin Waldseemüller",
"Naming of the Americas",
"Richard Amerike"
],
"word": "America"
}
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