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• ama
  ama

  noun

  a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
• -ama
  -ama

  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 .
• A.M.A.
  A.M.A.

  abbreviation

  American Management Association.
• AMA
  AMA

  abbreviation

  American Medical Association: a national group comprising over 200 state-level and specialized medical societies in the United States.

ama

¹ American  

[ah-mah] / ˈɑ mɑ /

noun

• amas,
  plural
• ama
  plural

1. a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.

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-ama ² American  

1. 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.

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A.M.A. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. American Management Association.

2. American Medical Association.

3. American Motorcycle Association.

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AMA ⁴ American  

abbreviation

• AMAs
  plural

1. American Medical Association: a national group comprising over 200 state-level and specialized medical societies in the United States.

2. Digital Technology. ask me anything: an online interview in which users can submit any question via comments or live chat on the website hosting the interview; also used in prompts inviting users to submit any question.

3. American Motorcyclist Association.

4. American Music Awards.

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AMA British  

abbreviation

1. American Medical Association

2. Australian Medical Association

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ama
  plural
• amas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of ama

From Japanese, dating back to 1945–50, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

ama A.M.A. AMA amas

I am 60 years old, and ama server.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

He added in the comments: "WOULDVE been the ama performance but they cancelled me for reasons unknown."

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022

Sixty-one-year-old Tahi Nepia is calmly paddling his outrigger canoe, called a waka ama in his Indigenous Māori language, as it is buffeted from side to side.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2022

His two daughters refer to Etcheverry and his wife, Kathy, as aita and ama, Basque for father and mother.

From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016

This ama, as may be already judged, was a curiosity.

From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells

Getting A.I. oversight right in medicine, a task that involves several agencies, is critical, said Dr. Ehrenfeld, the A.M.A. president.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

In the United States, the industry is worth an estimated $35 billion, and there are about 50,000 to 80,000 of these products, according to The A.M.A.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

Join him on Reddit at noon on Aug. 21 for a live A.M.A.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019

The A.M.A. once represented three-fourths of all American doctors; the growth of subspecialty societies may have contributed to its diminishment.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019

In addition, the following abbreviations have been used: A.M.A.

From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice Alpheus Bigelow

Alderson, who runs AMA Maritime Safety, said he would characterise it as a "significant incident" that deserves proper scrutiny so that lessons can be learned.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

In 2025 the AMA earned $340 million from royalties and credentialing products—nearly two-thirds of its revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Physicians use billing codes that come from the Current Procedural Terminology system, which the AMA developed in the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Thousands of Reddit users have been writing questions to Burnham since he announced he would be holding an AMA session on Thursday.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Gradually, perhaps under the influence of a Middle English AMA, the worm was given sole rights to the word, and the doctor became the doctor, out of dek, meaning to accept, later to teach.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Paradigm, pre-Kuhn, referred merely to an example that serves an educational purpose; amo, amas, amat, for instance, is a paradigm for teaching conjugations in Latin.

From Scientific American ● May 23, 2012

Layoff, to a govt. worker 43. __, amas, amat 44.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Amo, amas, you know, and runnin’ about like hooligans: what would you advise?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“Grace and I are just friends, Kojo. And ‘amo, amas, amat’ is Latin, not Spanish, although Spanish is considered one of the romance languages.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

Mi amas mian bonan patron = I love my good father.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark