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MARIANA ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Mariana Islands"):
Northern Mariana Islands; Northern Marianas (a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam)
GU; Guam (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)
Holonyms ("Mariana Islands" is a part of...):
Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)
