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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An unincorporated territory of the United States, the largest and most southerly of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Inhabited since ancient times by the Chamorro people, Guam was visited by Magellan in 1521 and ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898. Agana is the capital.
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- proper noun
Unincorporated territory of theUnited States ; placed in Oceania. Official name: Territory of Guam.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898
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Examples
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GUAM WATCH DAY 33 - It's been over a month since Rep. Hank Johnson worried that Guam might sink into the ocean.
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GUAM WATCH DAY 33 - It's been over a month since Rep. Hank Johnson worried that Guam might sink into the ocean.
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CARL GUTIERREZ (D), FORMER GOVERNOR OF GUAM: Now is the time for Guam and the other territories to be able to select.
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GOVERNOR OF GUAM: Now is the time for Guam and on the other territories to be able to select and maybe their votes maybe the ones that would put one of these two candidates over the top.
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CARL GUTIERREZ (D), FORMER GOVERNOR OF GUAM: Now is the time for Guam and the other territories to be able to select.
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GUAM WATCH DAY 33 - It's been over a month since Rep. Hank Johnson worried that Guam might sink into the ocean.
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The Web sites www. guam baby. com and www. american baby. co.kr were advertising the services on Guam for Korean women. www. babysaipan.com charges from $40,000 for a two-month stay in a regular room and up to
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Winning by 7 points in Guam is actually a big loss for the Obama cult.
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A 7 VOTE victory in Guam is significant but a 9-point win in Penn is nothing?
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A while back, a coworker of mine who had been stationed in Guam while in the Air Force told me a surprising fact — the name of the island Guam is not, as one would expect, a Chamorro word.
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