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Date "GAMA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
"GAMA" is a common misspelling or typo for: gaga, gala, game, gamma. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Gama (g hard). Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese, was the first European navigator who doubled the Cape of Good Hope. "With such mad seas the daring Gama fought ... Incessant labouring round the stormy Cape." Thomson: Summer. Vasco da Gama. The hero of Camoëns' Lusiad. He is represented as sagacious, intrepid, tender-hearted, pious, fond of his country, and holding his temper in full command. He is also the hero of Meyerbeer's posthumous opera, L' Africaine. "Gama, captain of the venturous band, Of bold emprise, and born for high command, Whose martial fires, with prudence close allied, Ensured the smiles of fortune on his side." Camoëns: Lusiad, bk. i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: GAMA |
| English words defined with "GAMA": Gryceria nervata ♦ Hierochloa borealis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GAMA": Mozaide ♦ Silver Star of Love ♦ Zacocia. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GAMA": Gum. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GAMA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (gamma), Indonesian (gamma), Portuguese (doe, fallow doe, gamma, gamut, key, scale), Serbo-Croatian (gamma, gamut), Spanish (doe, gamma, gamut, range, scale, spectrum), Turkish (gamma). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Aquário Vasco da Gama (1963) Centenário de Vasco da Gama (1925) Gama - Getto no hana (1996) The Gama News Team (1990) Vasko de Gama ot selo Rupcha (1986) | |
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| "Vasco da Gama Tower" by Luis Alves Commentary: "Vasco da Gama Tower in Lisbon, built for the Expo 98, world exhibition. --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and where it's used, thanks :-)." |
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Economic History | Tanzania | The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. (references) |
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| "GAMA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GAMA" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GAMA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gama | Last name | 1,000 | 13,521 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "GAMA": Gama grass. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GAMA": gamas, gamashes, gamay, gamays. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "GAMA": agama. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GAMA": agamas, amalgamate, amalgamated, amalgamates, amalgamating, amalgamation, amalgamations, amalgamator, amalgamators, rigamarole, rigamaroles, sagaman, thingamabob, thingamabobs, thingamajig, thingamajigs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GAMA" (pronounced gÄ"mu) |
| 3 | -Ä" m u | comma, drama, Lama, llama, mama, mamma, Momma, Pajama. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: agma. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-m" | |
-1 letter: aga, ama, gam, mag. | |
-2 letters: aa, ag, am, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-m" | |
+1 letter: agama, agmas, amiga, gamas, gamay, gamba, gamma, grama, magma. | |
+2 letters: agamas, agamic, agleam, ambage, amigas, bagman, damage, gagman, gamays, gambas, gambia, gammas, gasman, graham, gramas, magian, magmas, manage, margay, ragman. | |
+3 letters: agamete, agamous, amalgam, amazing, ambages, anagram, angioma, apogamy, damaged, damager, damages, diagram, digamma, dogmata, flagman, gambade, gambado, gambias, gamelan, gateman, grahams, gramary, grammar, grandam, grandma, gummata, hangman, magenta, magians, magical, magmata, magnate, mahuang, mailbag, majagua, malanga, managed, manager, manages, mangaby, margays, massage, megabar, myalgia, nametag, pangram, rampage, regmata, sagaman, sagamen, siamang, smaragd, swagman, tangram, trangam. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 41 4D 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -- .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01000001 01001101 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G A M A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0041 004D 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41354735 |
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