saipan   (TTS Sound)

The saipan has 2 Senses.

• saipan
• 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
• 北マリアナ諸島の最大の島で、米国と一体となった北マリアナ諸島連邦の行政の中心地

• saipan
• US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II
• 1944年7月に米国軍は日本人からこの島を獲得した