plural of news conference

A form of atheism that promotes active opposition to religion, rather than toleration.

(historical) A group of islands in the Pacific, now forming the state of Vanuatu.

The form of the Persian language that is used today, first attested from the late ninth century. It is distinguished from its precursor Middle Persian by the use of the Arabic script and an extensive borrowing of vocabulary.

Of a ship: exceeding the maximum dimensions of a Panamax ship, but still conforming to the maximum dimensions laid down for the New Panama Canal.

A school of literary theory developed in the 1980s, aiming simultaneously to understand a work through its cultural context and to understand intellectual history through literature.

The politics associated with the New Deal, a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform.

(historical) All of the territory of North America north of New Spain, as claimed by Sir Francis Drake for England in 1579.

(historical) A nation in South America corresponding to present-day Colombia.

(historical) A colony of the Netherlands: A Dutch colonial province along the east coast of North America, capital New Amsterdam