GUAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Guam mean? 

• GUAM (noun)
  The noun GUAM has 1 sense:

1. the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898

  Familiarity information: GUAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

GU; Guam

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Guam" is a part of...):

Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas (a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521)

 Context examples 

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

(Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, NCI Thesaurus)

A person having origins in the original peoples of the Pacific Islands, but not Guam, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands or Samoa.

(Other Pacific Islander, NCI Thesaurus)

The research team collected 18 sponge samples for the study during two research expeditions to Guam.

(Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made products, NSF)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Guam or the Mariana Islands.

(Guamanian or Chamorro, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes any of the indigenous Chamorro people of Guam and the Mariana Islands or persons of that ancestry.

(Chamorran, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

(Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

Denotes the inhabitants of Guam, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Guamanian, NCI Thesaurus)

Pacific Island American - a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands and who was either born in the United States or who was naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

(Pacific Island American, NCI Thesaurus)