Guam
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Etymology
[edit]From Spanish, from Chamorro Guåhan, meaning "a place that has" or "a place of resources".
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]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[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]Territory of Guam
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Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Anagrams
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guam
- Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Guam, from Chamorro Guåhan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guam m inan
- Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Guam
Derived terms
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nouns
Further reading
[edit]- Guam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Guam m
- Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guam ?
- Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)
Derived terms
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