Panama Definition

pănə-mä
noun
A fine, hand-plaited hat made from select leaves of the jipijapa plant.
Webster's New World
Any similar straw hat.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A country in Central America, the Republic of Panama.

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Origin of Panama

  • Probably from Guaraní, an unknown word traditionally said to mean "place of many fish."

    From Wiktionary

Panama Sentence Examples

  • In 1879 a congress assembled in the rooms of the Geographical Society at Paris, under the presidency of Admiral de la Ronciere le Noury, and voted in favour of the making of the Panama Canal.

  • In the next year (March - April) he inspected the Panama Canal and also visited Cuba and Porto Rico.

  • Colon dates its origin from the year 1850, when the island of Manzanillo was selected as the Atlantic terminus of the Panama railway.

  • The first seems not to go farther southward than the Antilles and the Isthmus of Panama.

  • At his advanced age he went with his youngest child to Panama to see with his own eyes the field of his new enterprise.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAN

Words Ending With

AMAAMA

Unscrambles

Panama

Words Starting With P and Ending With A

Starts With P & Ends With AStarts With PA & Ends With AStarts With P & Ends With MA

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With A