The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pan-American \Pan`-A*mer"i*can\, a. [See Pan-.] Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
Wikipedia
The Pan-American was a passenger train operated by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) between Cincinnati, Ohio and New Orleans, Louisiana. It operated from 1921 until 1971. From 1921 to 1965 a section served Memphis, Tennessee via Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Pan-American was the L&N's flagship train until the introduction of the Humming Bird in 1946. Its name honored the substantial traffic the L&N carried to and from the seaports on the Gulf of Mexico. The Pan-American was one of many trains discontinued when Amtrak began operations in 1971.
Pan-American, Pan American, Panamerican, Pan-America, Pan America or Panamerica may refer to:
- Collectively, the Americas: North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean
- Something of, from, or related to the Americas
- Pan-Americanism, an integrationist movement among the nations of the Americas
- Pan American Union, later the Organization of American States
- Pan American (band), an ambient/post-rock music ensemble
- Pan-American (train), a L&N train that ran from Cincinnati to New Orleans
Usage examples of "pan-american".
Peru bounded by the Rio Ingenio to the north and the Rio Nazca to the south, a roughly square canvas of dun-coloured desert with forty-six kilometres of the Pan-American highway running obliquely through it from top-centre to bottom right.
BALLANTIN-E BOOKS 9 NEW YORK A Ballantine Book Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group Copyright 2002 by Mary Jo Putney All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
New York To my father First Vintage International Edition, April 1991 Copyright © 1989 by Martin Amis All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Copyright © 1970 by Centesis Corporation All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
For instance, he claims that he was an assistant coach for Iran in the 1972 Olympics, and that he wrestled in the Asian Games, the European Games, and the Pan-American Games.
Of the rest, most lived close to the Pan-American highway where it ran from Panama City to the border with Costa Rica, south of the Cordillera Central.
We need to think of continuing that reputation, as well as saving this patients life in the quickest and best way possible for her and the Pan-American Economic Council.
The terms of the peace included moratoria on international obligations which was a polite word for cancellation, and established a Pan-American export-import bank to provide for resumption of trade on what amounted to a cash and carry basis.
The wave of rebellion swept over me in an instant, beginning with an heretical doubt as to the sanctity of the established order of things -- that fetish which has ruled Pan-Americans for two centuries, and which is based upon a blind faith in the infallibility of the prescience of the long-dead framers of the articles of Pan-American federation -- and ending in an adamantine determination to defend my honor and my life to the last ditch against the blind and senseless regulation which assumed the synonymity of misfortune and treason.