panama

Other forms of panama

plural

panamas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about panama

What does panama mean?

panama means "a republic on the Isthmus of Panama; achieved independence from Colombia in 1903". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in panama?

panama has 3 syllables: pan-a-ma. The stress falls on "pan". In IPA it is /ˈpænəˌmɑ/.

What is another word for panama?

Close synonyms include Republic of Panama, boater, leghorn, Panama hat, sailor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is panama a common word?

panama is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with panama?

1 word rhymes with panama. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.