United States

United States

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˌnaɪtɨd ˈsteɪts/, /jʊˌnaɪtɨd ˈsteɪts/
• (General American) enPR: yo͞o-nī'tĭd stātsʹ, IPA^(key): /juˌnaɪtɪ̈d ˈsteɪts/, [juˌnaɪ̯ɾɪ̈d ˈsteɪ̯ts], [jɪ̈-]

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• Rhymes: -eɪts
• Hyphenation: Unit‧ed States

Proper noun

the United States

1. (in the singular, formerly also plural) Ellipsis of United States of America.
   • 1793 December 3, George Washington, Fifth State of the Union Address:

     As soon as the war in Europe had embraced those powers with whom the United States have the most extensive relations there was reason to apprehend that our intercourse with them might be interrupted and our disposition for peace drawn into question by the suspicions too often entertained by belligerent nations.

   • 1964, Kennedy, John F., “The Immigrant Contribution”, in A Nation of Immigrants‎, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, LCCN 64-7830, OCLC 899031989, page 64:

     As we have seen, people migrated to the United States for a variety of reasons. But nearly all shared two great hopes: the hope for personal freedom and the hope for economic opportunity.

   • 1965, Truman, Harry S., MP2002-401 Former President Truman Discusses "The Buck Stops Here"‎, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 0:26 from the start:

     I used to have a sign on my desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here." The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.

   • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     “King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction.

2. (in the plural) The collection of individual states of the United States of America.
   • 1781, January 10, Samuel Huntington, letter to John Adams:

     Congress have no expectations from the influence which the people of England may have on the British counsels, whatever may be the disposition of that nation or their magistrates towards these United States.

3. (military) Includes the land area, internal waters, territorial sea, and airspace of the United States.
4. (nation's name) Federal nation consisting of several states, actual, historical or hypothetical.

   Republic of the United States of Brazil.

   The United States of Europe.

Usage notes

During the first few decades after independence authors commonly treated United States as a plural noun, but in contemporary English it is always singular.

Meronyms

• (states of the United States) state of the United States; Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Coordinate terms

• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

Derived terms

• Excited States
• Jewnited Snakes
• United Mexican States
• United Statian, U.S. American, United Statesian

 

Translations

the United States — See also translations at USA

Albanian: Shtete e Bashkuara m pl, Shtetet e Bashkuara (sq) m pl (definite) Arabic: الْوِلَايَاتُ الْمُتَّحِدَة‎ (ar) f pl (al-wilāyātu l-muttaḥida), أَمْرِيكَا‎ (ar) f (ʔamrīkā), أَمِيرِكَا‎ f (ʾamērikā), أَمْرِيكَة‎ (ar) f (ʔamrīka) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܬܪܘܬܐ ܡܚܝܕܐ ܕܐܡܪܝܟܐ‎ (trwtā mḥidā d-ʾmrikā) Armenian: Միացյալ Նահանգներ (Miacʿyal Nahangner), Ամերիկա (hy) (Amerika) Asturian: Estaos Uníos (ast) m pl Azerbaijani: Amerika Birləşmiş Ştatları (az), Amerika (az) Basque: Ameriketako Estatu Batuak Belarusian: Злу́чаныя Шта́ты m pl (Zlúčanyja Štáty), ЗША m pl (ZŠA), Аме́рыка f (Amjéryka) Bengali: যুক্তরাষ্ট্র (ĵuktôraṣṭrô), আমেরিকা (bn) (amerika) Breton: Stadoù-Unanet (br) pl Bulgarian: Съедине́ните ща́ти m pl (Sǎedinénite štáti), Аме́рика f (Amérika) Burmese: အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု (a.meri.kanpranyhtaungcu.), အမေရိက (a.meri.ka.) Catalan: Estats Units (ca) m pl Chamorro: Estados Unidos Cherokee: ᎠᎹᏰᏟ (amayetli) Chinese: Mandarin: 美利堅合眾國／美利坚合众国 (zh) (Měilìjiān Hézhòngguó), 合眾國／合众国 (zh) (Hézhòngguó), 美國／美国 (zh) (Měiguó) Corsican: Stati Uniti m pl Czech: Spojené státy (cs) m pl Danish: Forenede Stater c pl Dutch: Verenigde Staten (nl) m pl Dzongkha: ཨ་མི་རི་ཀ (a mi ri ka) Esperanto: Usono (eo) sg, Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj Amerikaj pl (formal), Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko (eo) pl (formal) Estonian: Ühendriigid pl Finnish: Yhdysvallat (fi) pl French: États-Unis (fr) m pl Galician: Estados Unidos (gl) m pl Georgian: შეერთებული შტატები (šeertebuli šṭaṭebi), აშშ (ka) (ašš), ამერიკა (ameriḳa) German: Vereinigte Staaten (de) pl, Amerika (de) n Greek: Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες (el) f pl (Inoménes Politeíes) Haitian Creole: Etazini, (to/in the US) Ozetazini Hebrew: אַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית‎ (he) f pl (artsot ha-brit) Hindi: अमेरिका (hi) m (amerikā) Hungarian: Egyesült Államok (hu) Icelandic: Bandaríkin (is) n pl Indonesian: Amerika Serikat (id), Amerika (id) Interlingua: Statos Unite (ia) Inupiaq: Tannapta nunaŋat Irish: Stáit Aontaithe m pl Italian: Stati Uniti (it) m pl Japanese: 合衆国 (ja) (がっしゅうこく, Gasshūkoku), アメリカ合衆国 (ja) (アメリカがっしゅうこく, Amerika Gasshūkoku), 米国 (ja) (べいこく, Beikoku), アメリカ (ja) (Amerika), 米 (ja) (べい, Bei) (as a component) Jarai: čar Mi Khmer: សហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក (km) (saʼhaʼrŏət ʼaameirɨk), សហរដ្ឋ (saʼhaʼrŏət) Korean: 미국(美國) (ko) (Miguk), 아메리카 (ko) (Amerika), 미합중국(美合衆國) (Mihapjungguk), 미(美) (ko) (Mi) (as a component) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Ameriqayê Yekbûyî Lakota: Mílahaŋska Tȟamákȟočhe (literally “land of the long knives”) Lao: ສະຫະລັດອະເມລິກາ (sa ha lat ʼa mē li kā), ອະເມລິກາ (ʼa mē li kā), ອາເມລິກາ (ʼā mē li kā) Latin: Civitates Foederatae Americae Latvian: Savienotās Valstis f pl Lithuanian: Jungtinės Valstijos m pl Macedonian: Соединети Држави f pl (Soedineti Državi) Malay: Amerika Syarikat (ms) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Америкийн Нэгдсэн Улс (mn) (Amerikiin Negdsen Uls), Америк (Amerik) Navajo: Wááshindoon bikéyah ałhidadiidzooígíí Norman: Êtats Unnis m pl Norwegian: Bokmål: De forente stater m pl, De forente stater m pl Nynorsk: Sambandsstatane m pl Occitan: Estats Units (oc) m pl Oriya: ଯୁକ୍ତରାଜ୍ୟ (or) (juktôrajyô) Persian: ایالات متحده‎ (fa) (eyâlât-e mottahede), اتازونی‎ (fa) (etâzuni) (dated), آمریکا‎ (fa) (âmrikâ) Polish: Stany Zjednoczone (pl) m inan pl Portuguese: Estados Unidos (pt) m pl Quechua: Hukllachasqa Amirika Suyukuna Romanian: Statele Unite f pl Russian: Соединённые Шта́ты m pl (Sojedinjónnyje Štáty), Аме́рика (ru) f (Amérika) Sanskrit: संयुक्तराज्यानि (saṃyuktarājyāni) Sardinian: Istados Unidos m pl Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Сјѐдӣњене̄ Амѐричке̄ Др̀жаве f pl, Амѐрика f, САД f pl Roman: Sjèdīnjenē Amèričkē Dr̀žave (sh) f pl, Amèrika (sh), SAD f pl Sinhalese: ඇමරිකාව (æmarikāwa) Slovak: Spojené štáty m pl Slovene: Združene države m pl Spanish: Estados Unidos (es) m pl Swedish: Förenta staterna (sv) n Tagalog: Estados Unidos (tl), Amerika (tl) Telugu: సంయుక్త రాష్ట్రాలు (te) (saṁyukta rāṣṭrālu) Thai: สหรัฐอเมริกา (th) (sà-hà-rát-à-mee-rí-gaa), สหรัฐฯ (th) (sà-hà-rát), อเมริกา (th) (à-mee-rí-gaa) Tigrinya: ሕቡራት መንግስታት (ḥəburat mängəstat) Turkish: Birleşik Devletler (tr) Ukrainian: Сполу́чені Шта́ти m pl (Spolúčeni Štáty), Аме́рика f (Améryka) Vietnamese: Hoa Kỳ (vi), nước Mỹ (vi), Mỹ Quốc Welsh: Unol Daleithiau (cy) f pl West Frisian: Feriene Steaten m pl Yiddish: פֿאַראייניקטע שטאַטן‎ pl (fareynikte shtatn) Yup'ik: United States

References

• Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006)

Further reading

• United States on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• United States on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• United States on Wikinews.Wikinews
• United States on Wikiquote.Wikiquote