Usonia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim The United States of America; a mononymous name for the country that does not convey the ambiguity of "America".

   “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.”

2. özel isim A utopian vision of the United States according to Frank Lloyd Wright.

   “[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 […]”

3. özel isim A community in New York State designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian style.

   “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.”

4. özel isim 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.

   “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.”