okinawa
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1. a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans (noun.act)
| instance hypernym | : | campaign, military campaign, |
| definition | : | several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) (noun.act) |
| part meronym | : | second world war, world war 2, world war ii, |
| definition | : | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945 (noun.act) |
| domain region | : | okinawa, |
| definition | : | the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands (noun.location) |
2. the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | island, |
| definition | : | a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | naha city, |
| definition | : | the chief city in the Ryukyu Islands (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | ryukyu islands, |
| definition | : | a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972) (noun.location) |
| domain member region | : | okinawa, okinawa campaign, |
| definition | : | a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans (noun.act) |
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