Standard Lemma guide

Chamorro

adj · name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Received-Pronunciation: /t͡ʃəˈmɒɹəʊ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /t͡ʃəˈmɔɹoʊ/
  • rhymes with -ɒɹəʊ
  • CMU ARPABET: CH AH0 M AO1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: CH OW0 M AO1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Pertaining to the indigenous native islanders of the Mariana Islands consisting of Guam, Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

An Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous native islanders of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

An indigenous native islander of the Mariana Islands consisting of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Chamorro Chamorro.

Across languages

Translations

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chamorro: CHamoru — Austronesian language
  • Chamorro: Chamorro — Austronesian language
  • Chinese Mandarin: 查莫羅語 /查莫罗语 (Chámòluóyǔ) — Austronesian language
  • Faroese: kjamorro — Austronesian language
  • Finnish: chamorro — Austronesian language
  • Finnish: tšamorro — Austronesian language
  • Icelandic: tsjamorríska — Austronesian language
  • Norwegian Bokmål: chamorro — Austronesian language
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: chamorro — Austronesian language
  • Spanish: chamorro — Austronesian language
  • Thai: ภาษาชามอร์โร — Austronesian language
  • Chamorro: CHamoru — ethnicity
  • Chamorro: Chamorro — ethnicity
  • Thai: ชาวชามอร์โร — ethnicity
Real reading context

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