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^[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.

• Guamanian

• Hagåtña
• Appendix:Countries and territories of the world

Divisions of the United States of America in English (layout · text)

States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

Federal district: Washington, D.C.

Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands

• 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)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	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
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	—

• 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)