Associations to the word «Marianas»

Wiktionary

MARIANAS, proper noun. An archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, a part of the geographical Micronesia.

Dictionary definition

MARIANAS, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats