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ama
1[ ah-mah ]
noun
- a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
-ama
2- variant of -orama, occurring as the final element in compounds when the first element is a disyllable ending in - r, used so that the entire word maintains the same number of syllables as panorama :
rollerama; Futurama.
A.M.A.
3abbreviation for
- American Management Association.
- American Medical Association.
- American Motorcycle Association.
AMA
abbreviation for
- American Medical Association
- Australian Medical Association
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ama1
Example Sentences
Named to honor the Ama freedivers — a 2,000-year-old tradition of predominantly women-led divers who gather pearls and seafood in Japan — the bestselling Lindquist Big Ama Bag is a perfectly proportioned shoulder-carry bucket tote.
Team-mate Ama Pipi progressed to the semi-finals as a non-automatic qualifier, but the 29-year-old did not make the final after finishing fifth in 52.29secs in the evening session.
Three members of Congress introduced a new version of a previous bill, based on Truman’s idea, but again, it faced strong opposition from the AMA over national health insurance.
Time after time, promising artists like Jamelia, Sadie Ama and even Raye have been let down by labels that don't know how to promote R&B to a UK audience.
In 2023, the American Medical Association refused to debate a resolution calling for a ceasefire, while in June of this year dozens of health care professionals and students protested the AMA’s House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, where a compromise resolution calling generally for peace in Israel and Palestine ultimately won over resolutions that would have called explicitly for a ceasefire, condemned collective punishment tactics such as restricting access to food, water or health care, and opposed U.S. funding to entities that commit war crimes.
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