North American
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2.5
- adjective
- /nɔrθ əˈmɛrɪkən/
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norteamericano
- In the U.S., some initially blamed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for this decline.
- North American market
- North American trade
- North American Free Trade Agreement
And this is the North American capitalist ideal, You know.
- And this is the North American capitalist ideal, You know.
- I will sign the North American Free Trade Act into law.
- And so countries naturally wanted to buy Russian gas rather than much more expensive North American LNG.
- I mean, he's, he's been the the Heats coach for he just signed the largest contract in North American sports history.
- And there are a lot of these same same skills being taught all over the North American continent, South Korea bases, German bases.
- And this was the first North American instance of Super League triathlon, you know, being conducted in this part of the world.
- My only other principle as far as ingesting salt is to eat a pristine salt that is mined from deep under the ground here on the North American continent.
Examples
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Most work on parenting has been conducted within a North American context.
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The North American climate varies widely from region to region.
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You were brought up as a man in a North American society.
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I will sign the North American Free Trade Act into law.
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But with all three, a North American community can be built.
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You understand North American hockey.
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Most research on parenting has been conducted within a North American context.
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This time it's NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Another issue that is now being recognized in a North American context is that of vehicle aggressivity.
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Monkman's canvases suggest that similar landscapes of liberty exist within North American visual culture as well.
Academic text (2012)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person from North America' is directly and predictably composed from the geographic modifier 'North' plus the demonym/adjective 'American', so the overall sense follows standard noun-compounding patterns. This construction is cross-linguistically common (modifier + nationality/place term), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will almost certainly infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
North American is made from the words North and America, which creates the image of the north part of the American lands. So it means 'relating to North America or its people'.