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Definition of Micronesian in English:
Micronesian
adjective
Relating to Micronesia, its people, or their languages.
‘In this very large family there are more than a thousand languages - including Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian languages and others as far north as Formosa, but not the Papuan languages of New Guinea.’- ‘Yes, Sydney train stations were crawling with cops after information on four Micronesian men with - wait for it - bags!’
- ‘Who could forget Jim Bolger and Cook Islands Premier Geoffrey Henry singing ‘Danny Boy’ under a Micronesian moon, or Bob Hawke savaging the media while wife Hazel sat calmly knitting among the reporters?’
- ‘Best of all, I have a drinking permit for the Micronesian island of Kosrae.’
- ‘Nauruan is classified as a Micronesian language but does not fit easily within subgroupings of Austronesian languages.’
- ‘After the war, the Marianas were folded into the American-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, along with other Micronesian islands, such as Palau and Yap.’
- ‘Marriage unions that create family alliances and concentrate land, wealth, and status, such as preferential cross-cousin marriage, are favored in many Micronesian societies.’
- ‘Slikas et al. performed a phylogenetic analysis for several Micronesian white-eyes, but did not investigate the position of white-eyes among sylvioids.’
- ‘Only recently, as Poyer and Kiste make clear, has Micronesian anthropology begun to consider transnational issues and cultures that transcend the always ambiguous borders of Micronesia.’
- ‘Economic self-sufficiency and the survival of the many cultures are two of the major problems facing Micronesian countries.’
- ‘The idea grew out of an effort to save highly endangered Micronesian kingfishers in Guam, where many bird species had been decimated by a brown snake invasion.’
- ‘The high rates of diabetes among Pi ma Indians, Micronesian Nauruans and Australian Aborigines have confirmed his predictions.’
- ‘The remoteness of the islands and the sparsity of the population makes Yap one of the last bastions for true Micronesian culture, unsullied by outside influences.’
- ‘But he also noted that Micronesian breadfruit has its own unique characteristics.’
- ‘Palau is an extremely beautiful Micronesian nation tucked away in a corner of the West Pacific close to Philippines.’
- ‘In preparation for an assault on the Philippines, and ultimately on Japan itself, during 1943, the Pacific campaign was largely focused on the painstaking conquest of the Japanese-controlled Micronesian islands.’
- ‘In 1974 Johannes came from the United States to the Micronesian island archipelago of Palau.’
- ‘Japan seized control of the Micronesian islands in 1914, and ruled them until the end of World War II.’
- ‘Palauans participated in the wide-ranging Micronesian trade system, with some interaction with Malay traders.’
- ‘The second PC separates the Polynesian outlier from the true Polynesian populations and the Micronesian population from the Melanesian ones.’
noun
1A native of Micronesia.
‘The island populations of the Pacific Ocean have historically been divided, on the basis of geography and culture, into Polynesians, Micronesians, and Melanesians.’- ‘Not because I love Americans, but simply because I don't hate Americans, like I don't hate the French, Canadians, Brits, Saudis, Jordanians, Micronesians, etc.’
- ‘A true test of presidency would be to champion the right to self-determination of Puerto Ricans, Filipinos, Micronesians, Samoans, and others directly affected by American imperial policies.’
- ‘Three populations are definitely outside of those four clusters: the Khanty from northwestern Siberia, the Micronesians, and the Nasioi Melanesians.’
- ‘It is comprised predominantly of Melanesians with the rest of the population consisting of Polynesians, Micronesians, and small pockets of Chinese and Europeans.’
- ‘The largest and longest standing community was then Filipinos (2,654 workers and their dependents), followed by other Asians, Americans, other Micronesians and Pacific islanders.’
- ‘Without a doubt, the Micronesians and Polynesians were the world's first great navigators.’
- ‘Micronesians arrived from the South Pacific between 200 and 500 AD and have a strong traditional culture.’
- ‘Inhabited by Micronesians when sighted by the Spanish in the 16th century, the largest island group was named the Gilbert Islands in the 1820s by the Russian hydrographer Krusenstern.’
- ‘Micronesians sought and designed their own destinies without outside assistance.’
- ‘College-educated Micronesians often take their talents elsewhere, contributing to what has been called the region's ‘brain drain.’’
- ‘We know for instance, that from the 17th to the 18th centuries, Micronesians from Kiribati and the Caroline Islands were often found in Melanesia and Philippines.’
- ‘Greetings among many Micronesians are equivalent to the English ‘welcome.’’
- ‘For example, Hutchins showed that the preliterate Micronesians employed an abstract navigational system that used the stars symbolically.’
- ‘Fading Micronesians have been known to describe a bustling, skyscraper-filled metropolis.’
- ‘The ancestors of the Micronesians settled the Caroline Islands over 4,000 years ago.’
2The group of Austronesian languages spoken in Micronesia.
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