Meanings
- historicalA United States concession within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September 1979. Former postal code: CZ
My parents, however, chose not to be subjected to the indignities and unequal treatment doled out in those days to Blacks in the Panama Canal Zone. They chose to give birth to me in a Panamanian hospital.
1986, Gilberto Gerald, “With My Head Held Up High”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 411 more example
On January 7, 1964, a group of American students at Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone set into motion events that soon threatened our relations with Panama and endangered operation of the Panama Canal. It was, on the surface, an inoffensive act: The students raised the American flag in front of the school.
1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180Synonyms: Canal Zone
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA United States concession within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September 1979. Former postal code: CZ
Translations
Catalan Zona de Canal de Panamà
- Zona de Canal de Panamàhistorical territory within Panama
Dutch Kanaalzone, Panamakanaalzone
- Kanaalzonehistorical territory within Panama
- Panamakanaalzonehistorical territory within Panama
French Zone du canal de Panama
- Zone du canal de Panamahistorical territory within Panama
German Panama-Kanalzone
- Panama-Kanalzonehistorical territory within Panama
Korean 파나마 운하 지대
- 파나마 운하 지대 (panama unha jidae)historical territory within Panama
Spanish Zona del Canal de Panamá, Zona del Canal
- Zona del Canal de Panamáhistorical territory within Panama
- Zona del Canalhistorical territory within Panama
Welsh Ardal Camlas Panama
- Ardal Camlas Panamahistorical territory within Panama
Cite this entry
Panama Canal Zone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Panama%20Canal%20Zone
“Panama Canal Zone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Panama%20Canal%20Zone. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Panama Canal Zone,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Panama%20Canal%20Zone.
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