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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

In Nippur may the mother hail her son, 42. ... dumu ama dé-im-me 42. may the son hail his mother.

From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon

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

Last month, the A.M.A. released the results of a survey of 1,000 people about the Cures Act’s provision on test results.

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

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

There was a thing by him in the A.M.A. the other day that caused considerable annoyance, I believe.

From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh

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

While the AMA isn’t the only medical organization advocating such things, it is the most powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Yet physicians would join only if the AMA more faithfully represented their views.

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

La patro amas sian filon = the father loves his son.

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