American Falls
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- proper noun
- /əˈmɛrɪkən fɔlz/
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Cataratas Americanas
- Many tourists enjoy taking boat tours close to American Falls to experience the mist from the water.
Examples
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Visitors flock to see the breathtaking beauty of American Falls during the summer months.
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Bridal Falls is the smaller, somewhat isolated waterfall to the right of the larger American Falls.
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As pictured above (via this io9.com article), American Falls was bone dry.
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In the late 1960s, American Falls was exhibiting some rock building at its base, caused by decades, if not centuries or millennia, of rockslides.
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Horseshoe Falls, pictured right in the above photograph, is the largest of the three, while American Falls and the relatively small Bridal Veil Falls are the ones on the left.
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The scenic view of American Falls from the observation deck is truly unforgettable.
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Morphology
The name is compositionally transparent: 'American' (connected with the United States) combined with 'falls' (waterfalls) straightforwardly denotes the waterfalls on the American side or the section of Niagara Falls in the U.S. This modifier + noun place-naming pattern is common across languages and would be easily inferred by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
American Falls is the name given to the part of Niagara Falls that lies on the United States side. The word Falls means waterfall and American points to the 'American' side, so the name simply tells you it is the waterfall on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls.