Saipan (n.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: saipan ]

  2. US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II

    [ Syn: saipan ]

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