North America

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • The continent that is the northern part of the Americas; that part east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of South America and south of the Arctic Ocean.
  • Canada and the United States as a unit to the exclusion of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean nations, and Greenland. Often used to describe things in a context that includes only the US and Canada.

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