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NORTHERN MARIANAS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam
Synonyms:
Northern Mariana Islands; Northern Marianas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "Northern Marianas"):
Saipan (the largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States)
Holonyms ("Northern Marianas" is a part of...):
Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas (a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521)