Saipan

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Saipan
       n 1: 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
       2: US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July
          1944; it was an important air base until the end of World


          War II