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SOUTH AMERICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The nations of the South American continent collectively
Example:
South America is an important market for goods from the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("South America" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meronyms (members of "South America"):
American (a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country)
Derivation:
South American (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of South America or their peoples)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)
Meronyms (parts of "South America"):
Uruguay River (a South American river that arises in southern Brazil and flows south to the Rio de la Plata; the northern section forms the boundary between Argentina and Brazil and the southern section forms the boundary between Argentina and Uruguay)
Republic of Venezuela; Venezuela (a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil)
Guiana Highlands (a mountainous tableland in northern South America; extends from Venezuela into Guyana and northern Brazil)
Uruguay (a South American republic on the southeast coast of South America; achieved independence from Brazil in 1825)
Peru; Republic of Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)
Paraguay; Republic of Paraguay (a landlocked republic in south central South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1811)
Guiana (a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam)
Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)
Bolivia; Republic of Bolivia (a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain)
Ecuador; Republic of Ecuador (a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes)
Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)
Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)
Argentina; Argentine Republic (a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America)
South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)
Meronyms (members of "South America"):
South American (a native or inhabitant of South America)
Domain member region:
Latin America (the parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken)
Holonyms ("South America" is a part of...):
southern hemisphere (the hemisphere to the south of the equator)
New World; occident; western hemisphere (the hemisphere that includes North America and South America)
Occident; West (the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America)
America (North America and South America and Central America)
Derivation:
South American (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of South America or their peoples)
Context examples:
You are Henry Peters, of Adelaide, late the Rev. Dr. Shlessinger, of Baden and South America.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sites are in both northern and southern hemispheres of Mars, at latitudes from about 55 to 58 degrees, equivalent on Earth to Scotland or the tip of South America.
(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)
A NASA-developed airborne imager called a synthetic aperture radar took a detailed look at volcanoes in Central and South America during an Earth science study in late April and early May 2014.
(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)
The new genomic analysis presented in the study has shown that around 8,000 years ago, Native Americans were on the move again, but this time from Mesoamerica into both North and South America.
(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)
Overall, 79 countries, mostly in Asia, South America and Africa, experienced a growth in nighttime brightness.
(Study: Earth’s Night Skies Getting Brighter, VOA)
Its seeds are a major export from many producing countries in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia — but every year, 30% to 40% of pre-harvest yield is lost to diseases.
(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)
Previously unseen features include newly exposed continental connections across South America and Africa and new evidence for seafloor spreading ridges in the Gulf of Mexico.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
A country in central South America, northeast of Argentina.
(Paraguay, NCI Thesaurus)
Although many fossils of titanosaurians have been discovered around the globe, especially in South America, few have been recovered from the continent of Africa.
(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)
Our old neighbours, Mr. and Mrs. Grayper, were gone to South America, and the rain had made its way through the roof of their empty house, and stained the outer walls.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
