Panama City
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2.3
- proper noun
- /ˈpænəˌmɑː ˈsɪti/
:
Ciudad de Panamá
- I spent a wonderful week doing professional development workshops with teachers in Panama City, Panama, and throughout the week, the teachers created a collection of Spanish language children's songs to use in their classrooms.
Examples
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University students have catalogued an abundance of church records in Panama City, as well as a number of provincial church records.
Academic text (1999) -
Some argue that the United States has not adequately compensated those Panamanians who lost their homes in the Chorrillo section of Panama City as a result of the military intervention.
Academic text (1993) -
Today, there are more private security forces in Panama City than there are police forces.
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The central archive is located in the cathedral in Panama City.
Academic text (1999) -
In Panama, the sample was confined to the metropolitan Panama City area.
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All of these activities were inspired by the folk repertoire shared with me by my colleagues in Panama City.
Academic text (2015) -
I'm from Panama City.
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Attention please, Pan American announces its flight 516 from Panama City...
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Table 12 shows results from a series of polls conducted by Dichter & Neira for La Prensa, a leading daily newspaper in Panama City, in 1997-98.
Academic text (1999) -
President Obama meets formally today with his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, in Panama City, Panama.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'Panama' (the country) with 'city' (an urban area): a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it denotes a city in Panama. Toponymic compositions like this are cross-linguistically common and follow transparent compositional patterns, so the expression is immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Panama City in Panama took its name from the country 'Panama', a word that one popular story says meant 'many fish' in a local language. Because the city sits at the Pacific entrance to the canal, the name fits its long link to the sea and trade.