Значения термина America на английском

North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776.

Continent which extends on a great part of the Occidental Hemisphere of the Earth, from the Artic Ocean in the North, to the Cape Horn in the South at the confluence of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which delimits the continent on the East and West respectively.