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)