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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

The ama and the beautiful princess stepped out.

From Tales of Giants from Brazil by Elsie Spicer Eells

For the past several months, the A.M.A. has been urging the Department of Health and Human Services to make what Dr. Resneck calls “common sense” exceptions to the current rule.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 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

Amid an uproar, the A.M.A. backed out of the deal; Sunbeam sued for breach of contract and won a ten-million-dollar settlement.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019

Chicago, 1917, LXIX, 861-863; see also his, "Objective Psychobiology, or Psychobiology with Subordination of the Medically Useless Contrast of Medical and Physical," Journal A.M.A.,

From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society

While recent polling is hard to find, a 2011 study found that the majority of physicians who left the AMA did so because it “no longer represents physicians.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Changing the Medicare payment system would upend the AMA.

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

"We've had such an overwhelming response to this album," J-Hope, 32, said as they accepted the AMA.

From BBC ● May 26, 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

Example.—Ju pli mi lin konas, des pli mi lin amas = The more I know him, the more I love him.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox