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Tampa

/ˈtæm.pə/

Tampa proper noun: a city, the county seat of Hillsborough County, Florida, located on Tampa Bay.

Proper noun

Tampa

  1. A city, the county seat of Hillsborough County, Florida, located on Tampa Bay.
  2. A city in Marion County, Kansas.

Origin of Tampa

Unknown, likely from a Calusa word. See Tampa, Florida § Etymology for more.

Words formed from Tampa

Phrases with Tampa

Words that rhyme with Tampa

Questions about Tampa

What does Tampa mean?
Tampa means a city, the county seat of Hillsborough County, Florida, located on Tampa Bay.
What part of speech is Tampa?
Tampa is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Tampa?
Tampa is pronounced /ˈtæm.pə/.

Words near Tampa in the dictionary

  1. Tamoso
  2. tamoxifen
  3. tamoxifens
  4. tamp
  5. tamp down
  6. Tampa
  7. Tampa Bay
  8. tampable
  9. Tampakis
  10. Tampakises
  11. tampala

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tampa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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