pan-american
/ˌpæn əˈmerɪkən/ (bre, ipa) · /ˌpæn əˈmerɪkən/ (ame, ipa) · /ˌpa-nə-ˈmer-ə-kən/ (ame, mw)
pan-american — adjective
1. covering or shared by every country in North America, Central America, and South
covering or shared by every country in North America, Central America, and South America taken together as one region.
Iker chaired a pan-American conference on climate policy in Bogotá last spring.
attributive: pan-American + noun (event/institution)
The Pan-American Highway runs from Alaska down to the southern tip of Argentina.
proper-noun collocation: the Pan-American Highway
Nadia is studying a pan-American trade agreement that links twenty-three countries.
The orchestra played folk songs from a pan-American repertoire collected over thirty years.
Takeshi published a pan-American study of bird migration along the western coastline.
- hemispheric
broader — can refer to either half of the globe; pan-American is specifically the Americas
- inter-American
emphasises relations between American states; pan-American emphasises covering them all
文法句型
pan-American + noun
用法筆記
Almost always used attributively before a noun naming an event, organisation, agreement, route, or research scope. Often capitalised (Pan-American) when part of a proper name.