NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Northern Mariana Islands mean? 

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

1. a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Northern Mariana Islands; Northern Marianas

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Northern Mariana Islands"):

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 ("Northern Mariana Islands" 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)