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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of the east-central Philippines in the Visayan Islands northeast of Leyte in the Samar Sea, an arm of the Pacific Ocean. The island was the first in the archipelago to be sighted by Magellan (1521).
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- proper noun An
island of thePhilippines , located in theVisayas
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"Samar," the origin of Musámarah, which see, vol. iv.
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