SAIPAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saipan mean? 

• SAIPAN (noun)
  The noun SAIPAN has 2 senses:

1. the largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States

2. US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II

  Familiarity information: SAIPAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAIPAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain member region:

Saipan (US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II)

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

Northern Mariana Islands; Northern Marianas (a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam)

Sense 2

Meaning:

US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

amphibious assault (an amphibious operation attacking a land base that is carried out by troops that are landed by naval ships)

Domain region:

Saipan (the largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States)

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

Second World War; World War 2; World War II (a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945)