"Usania" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /juːˈseɪni.ə/
Etymology: USA + -an + -ia, parallel to Araucania, etc.; or a backformation from Usanian Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Usania
  1. (nonstandard) The United States of America. Tags: nonstandard Categories (place): United States Synonyms: USA, Usonia Related terms: Usanian

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  "etymology_text": "USA + -an + -ia, parallel to Araucania, etc.; or a backformation from Usanian",
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          "ref": "1971, Norman Ward, “Where But in Usania”, in John Harold Redekop, editor, The star-spangled beaver, page 3",
          "text": "Where but in Usania would a state delegation appear at a national convention pledged to support a man known to be ineligible for election?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems, page 211",
          "text": "Burton, writing at a time when homophobia was as common in much of Europe as it remains in parts of the peculiarly Puritan Usania, felt he could not end his defense on a general note.",
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        "(nonstandard) The United States of America."
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