Definition of "America"

The results of my examination ... for the most part allied to plants of the cooler part of America, or the uplands of the tropical latitudes ...

1847, Joseph Dalton Hooker, On the Vegetation of the Galapagos Archipelago, as compared with that of some other Tropical Islands and of the Continent of America, pages 235–262

the Marsupials or pouched animals, being found throughout the continent of America, from the United States to Patagonia

1890, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 796

Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘America’.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 691

For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.

1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat‎, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, page 237

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, page 74

And once gain, America is saved from destruction by the heroes in “MEAL Team Six”.

2014 July 27, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 12, John Oliver (actor), via HBO

Captain America, how did he get his powers?I think he... he got bitten by America.

2022 April 3, Roisin Conaty & al., Big Fat Quiz of Everything, Channel 4