The Bahamas is an island chain of seven hundred isles off Florida, famed for beaches. Sail to the Bahamas, born in the Bahamas, the northern Bahamas.
It takes the definite article and a singular verb, like the Philippines. Only about thirty of the islands are inhabited, the capital is Nassau, and the water is famously clear because the sea over the banks is very shallow.
1nounbahamasAn island country off Florida.
“We spent our honeymoon on a quiet beach in the Bahamas, swimming in clear blue water.”
bahamas is a country.
Also accepted in games: the Bahamas
tnq
ba ha ma — big upper middle land
Spanish
baja mar — shallow sea
English
Bahamas
English, today
bahamas
Bahamas Disputed; probably from Spanish baja mar (“shallow sea”) or tnq ba ha ma (“big upper middle land”), via Spanish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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