Definitions for Tampa
ˈtæm pəTam·pa

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1. Tampa(noun)

   a resort city in western Florida; located on Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico

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1. Tampa(ProperNoun)

   City in the state of Florida, located on Tampa Bay.

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1. Tampa

   Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County and is located on the west coast of Florida, on Tampa Bay near the Gulf of Mexico. The population of Tampa in 2011 was 346,037. The current location of Tampa was once inhabited by indigenous peoples of the Safety Harbor culture, most notably the Tocobaga and the Pohoy, who lived along the shores of Tampa Bay. It was briefly explored by Spanish explorers in the early 16th century, but there were no permanent American or European settlements within today's city limits until after the United States had acquired Florida from Spain in 1819. In 1824, the United States Army established a frontier outpost called Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River, near the site of today's Tampa Convention Center. The first civilian residents were pioneers who settled near the fort for protection from the nearby Seminole population. The town grew slowly until the 1880s, when railroad links, the discovery of phosphate, and the arrival of the cigar industry jump-started Tampa's development and helped it to grow into an important city by the early 1900s. Today, Tampa is a part of the metropolitan area most commonly referred to as the Tampa Bay Area. For U.S. Census purposes, Tampa is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The four-county area is composed of roughly 2.9 million residents, making it the second largest metropolitan statistical area in the state, and the fourth largest in the Southeastern United States, behind Miami, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. The Greater Tampa Bay area has just over 4 million residents and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas. The Tampa Bay Partnership and U.S. Census data showed an average annual growth of 2.47 percent, or a gain of approximately 97,000 residents per year. Between 2000 and 2006, the Greater Tampa Bay Market experienced a combined growth rate of 14.8 percent, growing from 3.4 million to 3.9 million and hitting the 4 million people mark on April 1, 2007. A 2012 estimate shows the Tampa Bay area population to have 4,310,524 people and a 2017 projection of 4,536,854 people.

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1. Tampa

   Calusa Indian word meaning "sticks of fire".

   Submitted by anonymous on July 28, 2019  

How to pronounce Tampa?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tampa in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tampa in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Tampa in a Sentence

1. Said Brown:

   I said, Bobby Joe Long in custody, you always tell me to be careful, but whats going on out there in Tampa Bay ? and Bobby Joe Long in custody said, Thats why I tell you, because you never know.

2. Damian Caraballo:

   Caraballo said. Dr. Damian Caraballo was quarantined with his wife and kids in Tampa while awaiting his test results. (Contributed photo) Caraballos nasal test swab was sent out to California where he had to await the results for 6.5 days. Its been frustrated to see other countries -- like South Korea-- have widespread testing and their doctors wearing what looks like spacesuits to treat patients, he said. Meanwhile,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising doctors dealing with a shortage of facemasks to use a bandana or scarf to care for COVID-19 patients as a last resort. Health care professionals without masks in contact with a COVID-19 patient are advised to stay away from work for 14 days, setting up a scenario for many more doctors and nurses to be absent from the frontlines. The CDC recommendations sound like were in athird world country.

3. Alex Vanderveen:

   We feel like The Chiefs’s Tampa Bay 60 % then 30 % everyone else and maybe 10 % us, so we find our Chiefs fans, we get excited.

4. Jane Castor:

   We know how to handle difficult situations and make the best of it here in Tampa Bay and we intend to put on the best Super Bowl ever, even if it’s under some unusual, in difficult circumstances.

5. Donald Trump:

   Today I could be in a certain hotel in Washington, D.C. , opening a restaurant inside, but here I am… I would rather be here with you in Tampa today.

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