Definitions for GUAM
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1. Guam, GUnoun

   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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1. Guamnoun

   Unincorporated territory of the United States; placed in Oceania. Official name: Territory of Guam.

2. Etymology: From the first letters of the member states.

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1. GUAM

   The GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development is a regional organization of four post-Soviet states: Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova. Conceived in 1997 to harmonize and integrate commercial, diplomatic and democratic relations among its member states, the GUAM treaty charter was signed in 2001 and today covers a population of over 57 million people. Uzbekistan was also a member of GUAM in the 1999–2005 period. In 2003, GUAM became an observer in the UN General Assembly. In 2007, GUAM also established a military peacekeeping force and organized joint military exercises. Such increasingly deepened integration and relationships led to GUAM playing an important role in the region's diplomatic and commercial affairs. The official negotiating language of GUAM was Russian, but it was scrapped in favor of English in 2014. In 2017, agreements on a free-trade area were established for the first time.

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1. Guam

   Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of sixteen Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United Nations. The island's capital is Hagåtña. Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands. The Chamorros, Guam's indigenous people, first populated the island approximately 4,000 years ago. The island has a long history of European colonialism, beginning with Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition landing on March 6, 1521. The first colony was established in 1668 by Spain with the arrival of settlers including Padre San Vitores, a Catholic missionary. For more than two centuries Guam was an important stopover for the Spanish Manila Galleons that crossed the Pacific annually. The island was controlled by Spain until 1898, when it was surrendered to the United States during the Spanish–American War and later formally ceded as part of the Treaty of Paris. As the largest island in Micronesia and the only U.S.-held island in the region before World War II, Guam was captured by the Japanese on December 8, 1941, just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was occupied for two and a half years. During the occupation, the people of Guam were subjected to acts that included torture, beheadings and rape, and were forced to adopt the Japanese culture. Guam was subject to fierce fighting when U.S. troops recaptured the island on July 21, 1944, a date commemorated every year as Liberation Day.

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1. Guam

   An island in Micronesia, east of the Philippines, the largest and southernmost of the Marianas. Its capital is Agana. It was discovered by Magellan in 1521 and occupied by Spain in 1565. They ceded it to the United States in 1898. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Department of the Interior since 1950. The derivation of the name Guam is in dispute. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p471)

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1. GUAM

   What does GUAM stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GUAM acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. • Mariana Islands
   • Island

Anagrams for GUAM »

1. gaum

2. gaum

3. MUGA

4. MUGA

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of GUAM in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of GUAM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of GUAM in a Sentence

1. David Hackett:

   It's inefficient and it distorts the market, it makes life more expensive for people living on islands like Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii and those in Alaska.

2. Jennifer Appels:

   I was able to get on a surfboard and get on their boat, make an actual phone call, because no one spoke English, it was easier and safer for me to relay the information to the U.S. Coast Guard-Guam sector that we were in danger without them realizing what we were saying. If I had thrown the EPIRB at that point, he [the captain] would have known.

3. Mayor Senard Leopold:

   Once the children experience the conveniences of Western life they don't want to return. They stay on Pohnpei or go to study and work in Guam, Hawaii or West coast USA.

4. South Korea Mark Lippert:

   We've moved, over time, a good deal of missile defense capability to the region, ground-based interceptors to Alaska, surface combatants to the Western Pacific, a THAAD battery on Guam, another radar in Japan in order to be ready and vigilant for anything the North Koreans may or may not do.

5. Donald Trump:

   We fly these massive bombers in from Guam, and when I first started a certain general said, oh, yes sir, we fly them in from Guam, its right next door. Right next door is seven hours away and then they come and drop millions of dollars of bombs and then they go back, we spend hundreds of millions of dollars on those exercises, and I hated to see it. I thought it was unfair.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=GUAM
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Guam
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=GUAM