America - Definition and Overview

The word America has several meanings:

Geographical and political

• The Americas: North, Central, and South America.
• The United States of America.
• America - a small town in the Netherlands.
• America, a small town in Cambridgeshire, England.

Other

• America is an alternate title for the patriotic song, "My Country, Tis of Thee".
• America - a song by the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel.
• America - rock and roll band; also the title of their debut album.
• America - 1924 film directed by D.W. Griffith.
• America - a racing yacht that won the first ever America's Cup in 1851.
• America - multi-engine airplane used by Richard E. Byrd and his crew on a 1927 transatlantic flight.
• America - passenger liner commanded by George Fried involved in famous sea rescue in 1929.
• America (The Book), a book written by the staff of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
• Amerika - a small town in Saxony, Germany
• Amerika (Franz Kafka novel)
• America is a song from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, also performed by the UK rock group The Nice.
• Amerika is the title of an album of the German rock group BAP and the title of a song inside this album.