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say it: gwah-duhl-kuh-NAL
guadalcanal is a noun meaning "a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces
Guadalcanal
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for guadalcanal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.