NORTHERN MARIANAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Northern Marianas mean? 

• NORTHERN MARIANAS (noun)
  The noun NORTHERN MARIANAS has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHERN MARIANAS (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 Marianas"):

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 Marianas" 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)