Usania vs Usonia - What's the difference?
usania | usonia | Synonyms |
The United States of America.
* {{quote-book
, year=1971
, author=Norman Ward
, editor=John Harold Redekop
, title=The star-spangled beaver
, chapter=Where But in Usania
, page=3
, passage=Where but in Usania would a state delegation appear at a national convention pledged to support a man known to be ineligible for election? }}
* {{quote-book
, year=2007
, author=Robin D. Gill
, title=The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems
, page=211
, passage=Burton, writing at a time when homophobia was as common in much of Europe as it remains in parts of the peculiarly Puritan Usania , felt he could not end his defense on a general note.}}
A one-word name for the United States of America that does not have the ambiguity of "America"
* {{quote-book
, year=1903
, author=James D. Law
, chapter=The Sack of Auchindore
, title=Here and There in Two Hemispheres
, page=111–112
, publisher=Lancaster: Home Publishing Co.
, passage=And in Usonia's' mighty Lan'— / What almost seems beyond belief— / An offshoot of the Irvine clan / Is honor'd as the nation's chief!
We of the United States, in justice to Canadians and Mexicans, have no right to use the title " Americans " when referring to matters pertaining exclusively to ourselves.* {{quote-book
, year=1982
, author=Robert Champigny
, title=Sartre and drama
, page=64
, passage=Sartre may have banked on an irritation with Usonia' derived from the conviction that, without Usonian troops, France would not have been liberated. Add to this feeling of inferiority the fact, or rumour, that, for a few months, some sacred Parisian bread was made of corn ordered from ' Usonia instead of wheat,
* {{quote-book
, year=2004
, author=Juan Bruce-Novoa
, chapter=Twenty years of transatlantic Usonianism
, editor=Walter Grünzweig
, title=The United States in Global Contexts: American Studies After 9/11 and Iraq
, page=23
, passage=The Berlin Wall's fall and internet's rise inform new readings of America as much as the collapsing Twin Towers and Latinization of Usonia .}}
Frank Lloyd Wright's utopian vision of the United States
* {{quote-book
, year=2005
, author=Colin Porteous, Kerr MacGregor
, title=Solar Architecture in Cool Climates
, page=233
, passage=[Wright] also refers to 'the great Usonian Life, the universal life of our own true democracy' and 'the road to Freedom in Usonia' . The association of USA and utopia is inescapable
A community in New York state designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian style
* {{quote-book
, year=2001
, author=Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Timpane
, title=Usonia, New York
, page=xvii
, passage=THEY NAMED THEIR COMMUNITY of forty-seven homes near Pleasantville, New York, "Usonia " in homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, whose ideas on the way Americans should live together guided their plan.}}
(rare) In geopolitical and international economic modeling, a prototype superpower that, in competing with an antagonistic superpower Russonia (the Soviet Union), allows Thirdonia (a hypothetical neutral Third World country) to extract considerable wealth from both.
* {{quote-journal
, year=1964
, author=Albert O. Hirschmann
, title=The Stability of Neutralism: A Geometric Note
, journal=The American economic review
, page=94
, passage=Suppose two powerful, industrialized countries, called Usonia and Russonia, compete by mean of capital exports and other forms of "aid" for influence in various underdeveloped countries, typified by Thirdonia.}}
Usonia is a synonym of usania.
As proper nouns the difference between usania and usonia
is that usania is the United States of America while Usonia is a one-word name for the United States of America that does not have the ambiguity of "America.usania
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Synonyms
* USA, Usoniausonia
English
(wikipedia Usonia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)We of the United States, in justice to Canadians and Mexicans, have no right to use the title " Americans " when referring to matters pertaining exclusively to ourselves.
