WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
ra•ma•da
(rə mä′də),USA pronunciation n.
- an open shelter, often having a dome-shaped thatched roof, and installed esp. on beaches and picnic grounds.
- Latin rāmus
- American Spanish: open shelter roofed with branches; earlier Spanish enramada arbor, bower, noun, nominal use of feminine past participle of enramar to intertwine branches equivalent. to en- in-2 + -ramar, verb, verbal derivative of ramo branch
- 1865–70, American.