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What does North America mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word North America? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. The continent that is the northern part of the Americas; that part east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of South America and south of the Arctic Ocean.
  2. (Canada) Canada and the United States of America as a unit to the exclusion of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean nations, and Greenland. Often used to describe things in a context that includes only the US and Canada.
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Aboriginal peoples were living in North America at this time and still do today.
As a result of his expedition, the 1529 Diogo Ribeiro world map outlines the East coast of North America almost perfectly.
It seems likely that wealthy countries in Western Europe and North America need to degrow their economies before establishing a steady state.
Boston's "Cradle of Liberty" is only steps from sites where enslaved Africans were bought and sold after traveling the Middle Passage from West Africa to North America.
Archeological remains on North America even exist which give evidence to the dynamism and territorial ambitions of these Germanic warriors.
The first actor known to have played Hamlet in North America is Lewis Hallam.

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