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/saʊθ əmˈɛrəkən/ Listen

South American

noun

A native or inhabitant of South America.

adjective

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of South America or their peoples.

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"South american" Quotes from Famous Books

... clerk told me that a long20time ago Dawson said he had always wanted to go to South America and that perhaps on his honeymoon he might get a chance. This is the way I figured it out. You see, he is clever and some of these South American countries have no extradition treaties with us by which we could reach him, ...

— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve

... replied; "I seem in some way to associate you with Brazil and the South American cities. Were you ...

— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon

... growing role in transshipment of southwest and southeast Asian heroin and south American cocaine destined for south African, European, and US markets and of south Asian methaqualone bound for southern Africa; money laundering remains ...

— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... had was an able seaman who re-entered the Navy as a volunteer for the war. He, during his time out of the Service, had been a sort of general factotum to some dark-skinned South American potentate. He is a real treasure—the A. B. I mean, not necessarily the potentate. He feeds us liberally and well, though it is true that he speedily discovered the virtues of tinned salmon. In fact we don't know what he would do without it, and the ubiquitous pig. Sometimes ...

— Stand By! - Naval Sketches and Stories • Henry Taprell Dorling

... perform seemed only at its commencement yet. Thinking how to proceed with it, my eyes roved over the level area we were standing on, and it struck me that this little irregular plain, broad at one end and almost pointed at the other, roughly resembled the South American continent in ...

— Green Mansions - A Romance of the Tropical Forest • W. H. Hudson

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