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Definition: MICRONESIAN |
MICRONESIANAdjective1. Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Inhabitant of Micronesia. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MICRONESIAN |
| English words defined with "MICRONESIAN": Micronesians. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MICRONESIAN": Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander race and ethnic categories. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Native Micronesian fishermen greeting the TOWNSEND CROMWELL. Credit: Small World. |  | Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center - now Palau Mariculture Center. Credit: Small World. |
 | Approaching the prehistoric Micronesian city of Nan Madol. Credit: Small World. |  | The prehistoric Micronesian city of Nan Madol - Basalt "logs" came from miles away. Credit: Small World. |
 | Getting ready to land on the stairway to Nan Madol - a prehistoric Micronesian city constructed of basalt "logs." Basalt was quarried miles away. Credit: Small World. |  | Retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen, known as the Candy Bomber during the Berlin Airlift after World War II, writes a message Dec. 12 to the people of the Micronesian Islands who were receiving cartons of humanitarian supplies during this year's Christm. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Solomon Islands | Of its 427,000 persons, 93.3% are Melanesian, 4% Polynesian, and 1.5% Micronesian. (references) |
Solomon Islands | Ethnic groups (1987): Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, other 1.5%. (references) | |
Micronesia | The indigenous population, which is predominantly Micronesian, consists of various ethnolinguistic groups. (references) | |
Political Economy | Micronesia | The population is approximately 107,000, mostly of Micronesian origin. (references) |
Kiribati | The country has a population of over 90,000 that is primarily Micronesian, with a significant component of Polynesian origin. (references) | |
Women | Micronesia | In the traditional Micronesian extended family unit, spouses and children were accorded strong protections from violence, abuse, and neglect. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MICRONESIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MICRONESIAN" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
micronesian | 22 |
micronesian island | 8 |
chat micronesian room | 5 |
micronesian yap | 5 |
chat micronesian | 3 |
micronesian seminar | 3 |
art micronesian | 2 |
game micronesian | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MICRONESIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 密克罗尼西亚. (various references) | ||||
German | Mikronesier (micronesians). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | icronesianmay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"MICRONESIAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macaronesia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: acrimonies. | |
-2 letters: canonries, cramoisie, encrimson, insomniac, noncrimes. | |
-3 letters: amnionic, canonise, carmines, casimire, cinerins, coniines, crannies, cremains, incomers, insomnia, isomeric, minicars, minorcas, monecian, monerans, moraines, morainic, narceins, noncrime, oscinine, raisonne, recision, reinsman, romaines, romances, romanise, scenario, sermonic, simoniac, sirenian, sonarmen, soricine. | |
-4 letters: acinose, amnesic, amnions, amorini, ancones, anionic, anomies, anosmic, arcsine, arsenic, asinine, camions, canines. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-s" | |
+2 letters: oneiromancies. | |
+3 letters: predominancies, recombinations, recriminations, triamcinolones. | |
+4 letters: acrimoniousness, econometricians, intercomparison, reconfirmations. | |
+5 letters: antireductionism, codeterminations, intercomparisons, magnetostriction, nonmaterialistic, recontaminations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 49 43 52 4F 4E 45 53 49 41 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .. -.-. .-. --- -. . ... .. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001001 01000011 01010010 01001111 01001110 01000101 01010011 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M I C R O N E S I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0049 0043 0052 004F 004E 0045 0053 0049 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4743375249483953433548 |
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