Guam

From Spanish, from Chamorro Guåhan, meaning "a place that has" or "a place of resources".

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡwɑm/

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• enPR: gwäm
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡwæm/, /ɡwɑːm/, /ɡwɒm/
• Rhymes: -æm, -ɑːm, -ɒm

Guam

1. 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.

• Guamanian

• Hagåtña
• Appendix:Countries and territories of the world

• Guma, MUGA, Umag, gaum, muga

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuɒm]
• Hyphenation: Gu‧am
• Rhymes: -ɒm

Guam

1. Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)

• guami

Borrowed from English Guam, from Chamorro Guåhan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.am/

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• Rhymes: -uam
• Syllabification: Gu‧am

Guam m inan

1. Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)

• Guam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Guame

Guam m

1. Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)

• Guaján (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwam/ [ˈɡwãm]

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Guam

Guam ?

1. Guam (an island and overseas territory of the United States in Micronesia)