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Western Samoa

American  

noun

  1. an independent country comprising the W part of Samoa: formerly a trust territory of New Zealand. 1,133 sq. mi. (2,935 sq. km). Apia.


Western Samoa British  

noun

  1. See Samoa

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • Western Samoan adjective

Example Sentences

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The team was Western Samoa in those days.

From Washington Times • Oct. 13, 2023

Fiji, Western Samoa, the whole of Samoa spring to mind.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023

The Pacific had among the highest mortality rates, with Tonga, Tahiti, Nauru, and Western Samoa losing up to 20 percent of their populations in a matter of months.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2020

In isolated regions with “virgin” populations with no immunity to flu, the impact was truly astonishing – in Western Samoa, for example, a quarter of the population was wiped out.

From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2018

The rapid growth in 1994 of the giant African snail population in Western Samoa is also threatening the country's basic food crops, such as bananas and coconuts.

From The 1995 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency