MARIANAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marianas mean? 

• MARIANAS (noun)
  The noun MARIANAS 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: MARIANAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARIANAS (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 "Marianas"):

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 ("Marianas" 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)