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Princeton's WordNet

  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

Wiktionary

  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.

Wikipedia

  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.

ChatGPT

  1. guam

    Guam is an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States in Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the U.S. and the largest island in Micronesia. Its capital is Hagåtña, and its largest city is Dededo. The inhabitants of Guam are called Guamanians, and they are American citizens by birth.

Wikidata

  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.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  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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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. Jim Mattis:

    ( AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The news followedremarks from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday that the U.S. military would take out any North Korean missile spotted heading for American soil, including Guam. Jim Mattis said the U.S. would detect a missile of that nature heading towards Guam within moments. If North Korea fires at the U.S., North Korea could escalate into war very quickly.

  2. Donald Trump:

    We paid for a big majority of them. We fly in bombers from Guam, that's a long time for these big massive planes to be flying to South Korea to practice and then drop bombs all over the place and then go back to Guam. I know a lot about airplanes. It's very expensive.

  3. Singaporean Col. Lim Yu Chuan:

    With the vast training space available in the waters off Guam, the exercise also provides the RSN( United States Navy) with the opportunity to conduct high-end exercises of substantial scope and complexity.

  4. Thomas Shugart:

    The United States Navy did something similar to The United States Navy when The United States Navy replaced the bow of the damaged USS San Francisco, which ran aground on a seamount near Guam in 2005, with the bow of USS Honolulu, which was slated to be retired.

  5. Englishman Gary White:

    It was a tough and competitive game and it feels nice to be at the top of the Group, this is not the same Guam who used to play some 15-16 years back.

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  • غوامArabic
  • The word "guam" is a proper noun referring to the U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean and does not have a direct translation in Irish. It would typically be left as "Guam" in Irish as well. If you need any additional context or related terms translatIrish
  • גואםHebrew
  • "Guam" in Korean is written as "괌".Korean

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