SAMOA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Samoa mean? 

• SAMOA (noun)
  The noun SAMOA has 2 senses:

1. a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific

2. a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop

  Familiarity information: SAMOA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAMOA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Independent State of Samoa; Samoa; Samoa i Sisifo; Western Samoa

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Samoa"):

Apia; capital of Western Samoa (the capital of Western Samoa)

Holonyms ("Samoa" is a part of...):

Samoa; Samoan Islands (a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop)

Derivation:

Samoan (of or relating to Samoa or its people or language or culture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Samoa; Samoan Islands

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Samoa"):

Independent State of Samoa; Samoa; Samoa i Sisifo; Western Samoa (a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific)

American Samoa; AS; Eastern Samoa (a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa)

Meronyms (members of "Samoa"):

Samoan (a native or inhabitant of the Samoan Islands)

Holonyms ("Samoa" is a part of...):

Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)

 Context examples 

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

(Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, NCI Thesaurus)

On the same day, the Apia Observatory in Western Samoa observed a highly unusual aurora, which are typically only observed in at the poles.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

A country in the Pacific, occupying an island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga and south of American Samoa.

(Niue, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

(Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and New Zealand and east of Samoa.

(American Samoa, NCI Thesaurus)

Persons who are not U.S. citizens but who owe permanent allegiance to the U.S. They originate from places under U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction, or administration, i.e. American Samoa, Swains Island.

(Non-Citizen National, NCI Thesaurus)

On Thursday local time, the government of Samoa began a planned two-day shutdown to make way for a nationwide vaccination campaign to combat the measles outbreak that had, by reports, infected over 4,200 of the island nation's roughly 200,0000 residents since October and killed at least 62, including 54 small children.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

Pacific Island American - a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands and who was either born in the United States or who was naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

(Pacific Island American, NCI Thesaurus)