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North American

adjective

  1. of or relating to North America or its inhabitants
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of North America
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

She is a North American by birth, but an African by experience and heritage.

Colossal geological forces collided: the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate and the Farralon Plate.

They eat more than 500 kinds of plants and could wreak havoc if released into the North American environment.

Panasonic moved its North American headquarters to a new office building.

Enzi the younger has been overseeing the building of the Two Elk Power Plant in Wyoming for North American Power Group.

At that moment there came up the fore-hatch a yell, as if from the throat of a North American savage.

The memorable resolution, declaring the North American colonies independent, passed by congress, without one dissenting colony.

The North American colonies made such a struggle against the mother country.

In 1825, however, an act was passed, admitting corn from our North American colonies at a fixed duty of 5s.

The North American Indian appears to have been, when first discovered, wholly without any distinct religious faith.

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