Guam
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Etymology
From Spanish, from Chamorro Guåhan, meaning "a place that has" or "a place of resources".
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Guam
- An unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the Pacific Ocean. Official name: Territory of Guam.
- 1699, William Dampier, chapter X, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], 4th corrected edition, volume I, London: Printed for James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 290:
- But to proceed with our Voyage : The Iſland Guam or Guahon , (as the Native Indians pronounce it) is one of the Ladrone Iſlands, belongs to the Spaniards , who have a ſmall Fort with ſix Guns in it, with a Governour, and 20 or 30 Soldiers.
- 1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:
- It had been the intention of the Navy Department to fortify Guam with a view to turning it into a first-class naval base. The fact that America has been willing to forgo this intention must be taken as evidence of a genuine desire to preserve the peace with Japan.
- 1990, Ronald Reagan, “Staying the Course”, in An American Life, Pocket Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 369:
- We began our six-day visit to China in Beijing on a cloudy, overcast morning following another overnight stopover on Guam.
- 2022 May 12, Minnie Chan, “Satellite images ‘suggest China is practising missile strikes on targets in Taiwan and Guam’”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
- The Chinese military has refined its anti-ship missile training from striking large, carrier-sized targets to smaller ships and naval bases, according to recent satellite images.
They show a training base in Xinjiang’s remote Taklamakan desert with the layout of mock-up ship moored in a naval base that resembles one in northeast Taiwan and other targets in Guam, according to a Taipei-based naval analyst.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Guam.
Derived terms
Translations
Territory of Guam
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| Federal district: Washington, D.C. |
| Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Guam
- Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Guam | — |
| accusative | Guamot | — |
| dative | Guamnak | — |
| instrumental | Guammal | — |
| causal-final | Guamért | — |
| translative | Guammá | — |
| terminative | Guamig | — |
| essive-formal | Guamként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Guamban | — |
| superessive | Guamon | — |
| adessive | Guamnál | — |
| illative | Guamba | — |
| sublative | Guamra | — |
| allative | Guamhoz | — |
| elative | Guamból | — |
| delative | Guamról | — |
| ablative | Guamtól | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Guamé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Guaméi | — |
| Possessive forms of Guam | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Guamom | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Guamod | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Guamja | — |
| 1st person plural | Guamunk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Guamotok | — |
| 3rd person plural | Guamjuk | — |
Derived terms
- guami
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Guam m inan
- Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)
Declension
Declension of Guam
Derived terms
adjective
- guamski
nouns
- Guamczyk
- Guamka
Further reading
- Guam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Guam m
- Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)
Alternative forms
- Guaján (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Guam ?
- Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)
Derived terms
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