American.

Brit.

/əˈmɛrᵻkə/, U.S.

/əˈmɛrəkə/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name America.

Etymology: < America, the name of a land mass of the Western hemisphere, consisting of the two continents of North and South America, joined by the Isthmus of Panama; frequently used also as the name of the United States of America; apparently first used in M. Waldseemüller Cosmographiae Introductio (1507) < Americus, Latinized form of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512), Italian explorer who navigated the coast of South America in 1501.

literary and poetic.

A place which one longs to reach; an ultimate or idealized destination or aim; an (esp. newly identified) object of personal ambition or desire. Usually with preceding possessive adjective.In later use, probably in allusion to Donne or Shirley (see quots. a1631, 1631).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun]

heaveneOE

land of behesta1200

Cockaigne?c1335

Fortunate Islands?a1475

eutopia1553

utopia1601

horny gate (also port)1605

nonsucha1618

Americaa1631

El Dorado1788

other world1804

Cockneyland1817

cloud-cuckoo-land1824

Fiddler's Green1825

dreamland1832

Neverland1892

never-never land1900

Big Rock Candy Mountain1917

brave new world1933

Xanadu1948

Disneyland1956

ecotopia1975

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [noun] > object of aspiration

ambitionc1475

markc1550

prize1569

Americaa1631

will to win1917

a1631 J. Donne Elegies xix, in Poems (1669) 98 Licence my roaving hands, and let them go, Before, behind, between, above, below, O my America! my new-found-land, My Kingdom's safest when with one man man'd.

1631 J. Shirley Schoole of Complement ii. i. 19 O my bird, my Chicke, my Doue, My America, my new-found world, I shall shortly Run backe into one and twenty againe.

1659 J. Shirley Honoria & Mammon ii. 23 Is't not so, My America?

1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady ii. i. 90 That America of his childish dreams... the Long Gallery.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 402 Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.

1944 M. Rukeyser Ninth Elegy in Coll. Poems (1978) 259 We want to find and will spend our lives in finding: The landfall of our broken voyages Is still our America of contradictions.

1983 J. Jones Dostoevsky vii. 279 Whether the suicide who teases the murderer about his ability to do something is himself achieving anything deedy by going to his America—that question Crime and Punishment never voices.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	america
释义	American. Brit. /əˈmɛrᵻkə/, U.S. /əˈmɛrəkə/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name America. Etymology: < America, the name of a land mass of the Western hemisphere, consisting of the two continents of North and South America, joined by the Isthmus of Panama; frequently used also as the name of the United States of America; apparently first used in M. Waldseemüller Cosmographiae Introductio (1507) < Americus, Latinized form of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512), Italian explorer who navigated the coast of South America in 1501. literary and poetic. A place which one longs to reach; an ultimate or idealized destination or aim; an (esp. newly identified) object of personal ambition or desire. Usually with preceding possessive adjective.In later use, probably in allusion to Donne or Shirley (see quots. a1631, 1631). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [noun] > object of aspiration ambitionc1475 markc1550 prize1569 Americaa1631 will to win1917 a1631 J. Donne Elegies xix, in Poems (1669) 98 Licence my roaving hands, and let them go, Before, behind, between, above, below, O my America! my new-found-land, My Kingdom's safest when with one man man'd. 1631 J. Shirley Schoole of Complement ii. i. 19 O my bird, my Chicke, my Doue, My America, my new-found world, I shall shortly Run backe into one and twenty againe. 1659 J. Shirley Honoria & Mammon ii. 23 Is't not so, My America? 1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady ii. i. 90 That America of his childish dreams... the Long Gallery. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 402 Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison. 1944 M. Rukeyser Ninth Elegy in Coll. Poems (1978) 259 We want to find and will spend our lives in finding: The landfall of our broken voyages Is still our America of contradictions. 1983 J. Jones Dostoevsky vii. 279 Whether the suicide who teases the murderer about his ability to do something is himself achieving anything deedy by going to his America—that question Crime and Punishment never voices. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1631
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