Samar

American  

[sah-mahr] / ˈsɑ mɑr /

noun

1. an island in the E central Philippines. 5,309 sq. mi. (13,750 sq. km).

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Samar British  

/ ˈsɑːmə /

noun

1. an island in the E central Philippines, separated from S Luzon by the San Bernardino Strait: the third largest island in the republic. Capital: Catbalogan. Pop: 641 124 (2000). Area: 13 080 sq km (5050 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Samar shares the popular view that for every senior official "they've reportedly assigned three to seven successors. Like a hydra - you cut one head off, another grows back. They won't surrender any time soon."

From BBC

SAMAR, Ukraine—Kyrylo Horbenko represented the future of the Ukrainian army.

From The Wall Street Journal

In Samar—the commuter town near Dnipro where he shared a ramshackle house with his mother, Tetiana Horbenko, a supermarket cashier, his car mechanic stepfather and his younger brother, Yegor—army service was a way of rising up the social ladder.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mykola Kapralyk, a priest in Samar who grew close to Horbenko, said he has lost around 100 men from his flock to the war.

From The Wall Street Journal

On a visit to Samar midway through his training, Horbenko regaled relatives with stories of his training, showing video clips from the shooting ground.

From The Wall Street Journal