AMERICAS

Meaning of AMERICAS in English

A ‧ mer ‧ i ‧ cas, the /əˈmerəkəz, əˈmerɪkəz/ BrE AmE

North America, Central America, and South America considered together as a group

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AMERICAS — also called America, the two continents, North and South America, of the Western Hemisphere. The climatic zones of the two …
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LAS AMÉRICAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — Airport Name : Las Américas International Airport Airport Location : Punta Caucedo IATA Code : SDQ ICAO Code : MDSD
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AMERICAS, PONY OF THE — Pony of the Americas stallion. riding-pony breed used as a child's mount, developed in the United States in the 1950s …
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SPAIN — I officially Kingdom of Spain Country, southwestern Europe. One of Europe's largest countries, it is located on the Iberian Peninsula …
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PERU, VICEROYALTY OF — Second of the four viceroyalties established by Spain to govern its domains in the Americas. Founded in 1543, it initially …
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CONTINENTAL DRIFT — Large-scale movements of continent s over the course of geologic time. The first complete theory of continental drift was proposed …
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WOOD OWL — any of 11 species of birds of prey of the genus Strix, family Strigidae, characterized by a conspicuous facial disk …
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WESTERN AFRICA, HISTORY OF
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POLITICAL PARTY — a group of persons organized to acquire and exercise political power through election or revolution. Political parties are a product …
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LANGUAGE — a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group …
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CONTINENTAL DRIFT — the large-scale horizontal movements of continents relative to one another and to the ocean basins during one or more episodes …
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1998: ARCHAEOLOGY — Eastern Hemisphere. In 1997 stone tools from Ethiopia's Gona River were dated to between 2,600,000 and 2,520,000 years ago, which …
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1996: ANTHROPOLOGY-AND-ARCHAEOLOGY — ARCHAEOLOGY Prevailing political turmoil continued to close off the possibility for archaeological fieldwork in many parts of the Old World …
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SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN — member of any of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting the continent of South America. The customs and social systems of South …
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SOUTH AMERICA — fourth largest of the world's continents. It is the southern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New …
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SEVILLE — Spanish Sevilla provincia, one of eight provincias forming the comunidad autnoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. The provincia comprises …
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NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS — arts of the aboriginal Americans, often called American Indians. The art itself is often referred to as Indian art. The …
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NATIVE AMERICAN — also called American Indian, Amerindian, Amerind, or Indian, member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with …
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MIDDLE AMERICAN INDIAN — member of any of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting the area from northern Mexico to Nicaragua. The physical spine of Middle …
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LATIN AMERICA, HISTORY OF — history of the region from the pre-Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th …
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COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER — born between Aug. 26 and Oct. 31?, 1451, Genoa died May 21, 1506, Valladolid, Spain Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristbal …
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AMERICA — I . a popular national song in the US, first sung in 1831. It has the same tune as the …
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