say it: mahy-kroh-NEE-zhuh
micronesia is a noun meaning "a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986
the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania
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 micronesia 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.