NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North American country mean? 

• NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. any country on the North American continent

  Familiarity information: NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any country on the North American continent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

North American country; North American nation

Hypernyms ("North American country" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "North American country"):

Central American country; Central American nation (any one of the countries occupying Central America; these countries (except for Belize and Costa Rica) are characterized by low per capita income and unstable governments)

Instance hyponyms:

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Holonyms ("North American country" is a part of...):

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

Denotes a person of European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestral origins whose family settled in a North American country such as the United States of America or Canada.

(North American, NCI Thesaurus)