Thesaurus talk:United States of America

Contents of the old Appendix:Terms for the United States of America, for possible merging

 * America (ambiguous, sometimes referring to the Americas or the entire Western Hemisphere)
 * Amerika (pejorative)
 * Brother Jonathan
 * The fruited plain (from Katharine Lee Bates' song, America the Beautiful.
 * Stars and Stripes
 * The States (sometimes referring to only the Lower 48)
 * The Union
 * Stateside (sometimes referring to only the Lower 48)
 * Uncle Sam
 * United States
 * US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
 * Usonia
 * Washington (synecdoche)
 * Yankeeland or Yanquiland (pejorative)