Guam

See also: GUAM and guam

English

Guam in the Pacific, alongside the rest of the United States of America

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡwɑm/

  • Audio (US):

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

Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• Guamanian

Translations

Territory of Guam

• Arabic: غْوَام m (ḡwām)
• Breton: Guam
• Bulgarian: Гуам (Guam)
• Chamorro: Guåhan
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 關島／关岛 (gwaan¹ dou²)

  Mandarin: 關島／关岛 (zh) (Guāndǎo)

• Danish: Guam
• Dutch: Guam (nl)
• Esperanto: Gvamo
• Estonian: Guam (et)
• Finnish: Guam (fi)
• French: Guam (fr)
• German: Guam (de)
• Greek: Γκουάμ n (Gkouám)
• Hebrew: גואם
• Hungarian: Guam (hu)
• Interlingua: Guam
• Italian: Guam
• Japanese: グアム (ja) (Guamu)
• Kazakh: Гуам (Guam)
• Khmer: ហ្គាំ (gam), កោះហ្គាំ (kɑhhkŏəm)
• Korean: 괌 (Gwam)
• Lao: ກວມ (kūam)
• Latin: Guama f
• Lithuanian: Guãmas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Гуам m (Guam)
• Maltese: Gwam
• Norman: Guam
• Polish: Guam (pl)
• Portuguese: Guam (pt) m, Guame m
• Romanian: Guam n
• Russian: Гуа́м m (Guám)
• Serbo-Croatian: Gvam m
• Spanish: Guam (es)
• Swedish: Guam (sv)
• Thai: กวม (th) (guuam)
• Ukrainian: Гуа́м (Huám), Ґуа́м (Guám)
• Uyghur: گۇئام (gu'am)
• Vietnamese: Guam, đảo Guam

See also

• Hagåtña
• Appendix:Countries and territories of the world

Anagrams

• Guma, MUGA, Umag, gaum, muga

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Guam

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

Declension

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	—

Derived terms

• guami

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Guam, from Chamorro Guåhan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.am/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uam
• Syllabification: Gu‧am

Proper noun

Guam m inan

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

Declension

Declension of Guam

	singular
nominative	Guam
genitive	Guamu
dative	Guamowi
accusative	Guam
instrumental	Guamem
locative	Guamie
vocative	Guamie

Derived terms

adjective

• guamski

 

nouns

• Guamczyk
• Guamka

 

Further reading

• Guam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Guame

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɐ̃/, /ˈɡwɐ̃.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɐ̃/, /ˈɡwɐ̃.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɐ̃/, /ˈɡwɐ.me/

Proper noun

Guam m

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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Guaján (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwam/ [ˈɡwãm]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Guam

Proper noun

Guam ?

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

Derived terms

• guameño