MARIANA ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mariana Islands mean? 

• MARIANA ISLANDS (noun)
  The noun MARIANA ISLANDS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: MARIANA ISLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARIANA ISLANDS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas

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)

 Context examples 

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)

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)