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Panama

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpænəmɑː//
  • United Kingdom//ˈpanəmɑː//
  • United States//ˈpænəmɑ//

A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Panama.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Panama.

    A man, a plan, a canal — Panama!

    Economists at Capital Economics wrote in an August note that dollarized countries El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador show “markedly lower inflation than elsewhere in the region.”

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Panamá, of unknown origin. Possibly from a Chibchan language such as Kuna, or another indigenous language of the region (such as Cueva, which is barely attested and is now extinct).

noun

  1. 1

    A Panama hat.

Forms

plural
Panamas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).