Chamorro
Americannoun
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Chamorros,
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Chamorro
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Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of Chamorro
First recorded in 1945–50; from Spanish, from CHamoru Chamorri, the name of the highest, ruling caste of that people
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The indigenous people were long known as the Chamorro, a spelling imposed by the Spanish, but local legislation has recently favored the spelling “CHamoru.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Melanesia, which includes Chamorro people, Indigenous inhabitants of Guam, is one of the recently disaggregated categories in the census.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
Pineda got his second goal of the tournament and ninth in 58 international appearances, sending his kick to the left of goalkeeper Kevin Chamorro, who reacted the other way.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
When Guam capitulated two days later, the Japanese administered the island with the help of Chamorro translators from Saipan and a neighboring island called Rota.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
He had been a soldier in one of the revolutions, when John Chamorro was President, and ascribed the commencement of the disease to getting a chill by bathing when he was heated.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt
During those 95 years of turbulent history, the paper — under the ownership of one of Latin America’s most distinguished journalistic families, the Chamorros — has consistently stood for democracy and press freedom.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2021
Ritidian has been under US control since 1963, when indigenous Chamorros were moved off the land.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2020
Catholicism is deeply engrained in the culture of Guam’s indigenous people, known as Chamorros.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
Older Chamorros like de la Cruz balk at the idea the U.S. is anything but a loving, paternal benefactor.
From Time ● Aug. 16, 2017
The Chamorros had stayed loyal to us after the Japanese came, and they tried to resist.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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