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say it: SAY-puhn
saipan is a noun meaning "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". It is pronounced /ˈseɪpən/ — SAY-puhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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
US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II
Saipan
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 saipan 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.