Collocations for "America"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "America" in context.
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America
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [corporate, rural, urban] America
- [North, South, Latin, Central] America
- the United States of America
- am [going, traveling, coming] to America
- [wants, is going] to live in America
- have always wanted to [see, visit] America
- America's [best, most, leading, largest]
- America is [leading, falling behind] in
- will represent America [at the congress, in the games]
- God bless America
- is (originally) from America
- could only happen in America
- [travel, drive, road trip, fly] across America
- [imported, exported] [to, from] America
- in the Americas
'America' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Irish
- ancestor
- armpit
- attack
- baseball
- battle
- bigotry
- brand
- center
- central
- cranberry
- defeat
- distribution
- divorce
- exchange
- father
- greatness
- history
- household
- hunger
- immigrant
- inequality
- journey
- mainstream
- miss
- north
- passage
- peak
- politician
- pottery
- poverty
- president
- ranking
- sail
- sister
- slavery
- south
- state
- travel
- united
- voyage
- wanted