noun
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
• Syn: ↑Marianas, ↑Ladrone Islands
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑archipelago
• Part Holonyms: ↑Micronesia, ↑Federated States of Micronesia, ↑TT
• Part Meronyms: ↑Northern Marianas, ↑Northern Mariana Islands, ↑Guam, ↑GU
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a group of islands in the north-west Pacific Ocean. The US got them from Spain in 1898 after the ↑Spanish-American War. The most southern island is ↑Guam, where most of the inhabitants live.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.