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USA

USA

564 1.0
A country in North America made of fifty states
  • proper noun
  • /juˈɛsˌeɪ/
translation icon : Estados Unidos
  • So I moved to USA about five years ago from Pakistan.
  • USA and Canada
  • USA and Japan
  • Europe and the USA

like the good old USA. And freedom,

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Examples

  • Up to 25% of adolescent girls in the USA are iron deficient.

    Academic text (1999)

  • That guy's in charge of the USA now.

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • Born and raised in the USA.

    Walkout (2006)

  • In Europe and the USA, the corresponding figures are 2% and 6%.

    Academic text (1991)

  • I am from Harlem, USA.

    Melinda and Melinda (2004)

  • How many fifteen-year-olds across the USA had even heard of the Velvet Underground?

    Fiction book (1996)

  • He was born and raised in the USA.

  • Only 8% to 13% of retail shopping in the USA is done online.

  • This product was proudly made in the USA.

Synonyms

America
vsUSA
∞ 1.0

A country in North America made of fifty states including Alaska and Hawaii

is the abbreviated letter form rather than the casual short name
United States
vsUSA
∞ 1.0

A country in North America made up of 50 states often called the US

is the abbreviated form used instead of the full country name
US
vsUSA
∞ 1.0

A country in North America made of fifty states including Alaska and Hawaii

is the same abbreviation often presented with punctuation or as a variant
United States of America
vsUSA
191 1.0

A country in North America made of 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii

is the shortened letter form used instead of the full formal name
the States
vsUSA
  • Informal
77 5.8

A casual name for the United States used by people from other countries

is the standard abbreviation rather than an outsider's informal label
merica
vsUSA
  • Slang
1 9.7

A joking name for the United States often used with flags and pickup trucks

is the neutral letter abbreviation rather than a joking or slang name
U.S.A.
vsUSA
1.0

A country in North America made of 50 states

is the same abbreviation but regarded as the letters without extra punctuation
U.S.
vsUSA
1.0

A country in North America made of fifty states, including Alaska and Hawaii

is the full-letter abbreviation including that final initial in sequence

Surface Forms

USA main

Morphology

USA = U + S + A

This is an initialism/acronym composed of letters; the component letters do not convey the meaning unless the expansion 'United States of America' is known, so the form is not transparently informative to learners.

Etymology

The word USA is a short form made from the first letters of United, States, and America, so it stands for the country 'United States of America'.