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North American
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English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-North American.wav Southern England
Adjective
north American -
Of or relating to North America.
en Liptak Kevin With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/tariffs-trump-campaign-promise 2025-02-01 Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday. https://web.archive.org/web/20251121094734/https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/tariffs-trump-campaign-promise 21 November 2025
en US Canada Of or relating to Northern America.
en nonstandard dated Of or relating to the United States of America.
en Adolf Hitler Hitler Adolf Adolf Hitler's Letter to Benito Mussolini Explaining the Invasion of the Soviet Union 21 June 1941 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Letter_to_Benito_Mussolini_Explaining_the_Invasion_of_the_Soviet_Union Behind these two countries stands the North American Union goading them on and watchfully waiting.
Derived terms
en North American bison North American buffalo North American ringtail North American robin North American States North American Union North American wheel bug
Translations
relating to North America
Belarusian: be паўночнаамерыка́нскі
Bulgarian: bg северноамерика́нски, bg североамерика́нски
Catalan: ca nord-americà
Czech: cs severoamerický
Danish: da nordamerikansk
Dutch: nl Noord-Amerikaans
Finnish: fi pohjoisamerikkalainen
French: fr nord-américain
Galician: gl norteamericano
Georgian: ka ჩრდილოამერიკული
German: de nordamerikanisch
Hebrew: he צפון אמריקני ts'fón-amerikáni, he צפון אמריקאי ts'fón-amerikái
Hindi: hi उत्तर अमरीकी
Hungarian: hu észak-amerikai
Ido: io Nord-Amerikala
Italian: it nordamericano
Macedonian: mk северноамерикански
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb nordamerikansk
Nynorsk: nn nordamerikansk
Polish: pl północnoamerykański
Portuguese: pt norte-americano
Romanian: ro nord-american
Russian: ru североамерика́нский
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh северноамѐричкӣ, sh сјеверноамѐричкӣ
Latin: sh severnoamèričkī, sh sjevernoamèričkī
Slovak: sk severoamerický
Slovene: sl severnoameriški
Spanish: es norteamericano
Swedish: sv nordamerikansk
Tamil: ta வட அமெரிக்க
Ukrainian: uk північноамерика́нський
Noun
north American
A person living in or originating from North America.
en US Canada A person living in or originating from Northern America.
en nonstandard A person living in or originating from the United States of America.
Translations
North American person
Catalan: ca nord-americà
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 北美人 Běiměirén
Czech: cs Severoameričan
Dutch: nl Noord-Amerikaan m, nl Noord-Amerikaanse f
Finnish: fi pohjoisamerikkalainen
French: fr nord-américain
Galician: gl norteamericano, gl norteamericana f
Georgian: ka ჩრდილოამერიკელი
German: de Nordamerikaner m, de Nordamerikanerin f
Hindi: hi उत्तर अमरीकी m f
Hungarian: hu észak-amerikai
Ido: io Nord-Amerikano
Italian: it nordamericano m
Portuguese: pt norte-americano
Romanian: ro nord-american m, ro nord-americancă f
Russian: ru североамерика́нец m, ru североамерика́нка f
Spanish: es norteamericano
Swedish: sv nordamerikan c
Turkish: tr Kuzey Amerikalı
First People
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