Okinawa

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Okinawa \Okinawa\ prop. n.
     1. the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the
        Pacific (April-June 1945); in savage close-quarter


        fighting US marines and regular army troops took the
        island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory
        of the Pacific campaign for the Americans.
  
     Syn: Okinawa campaign.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Okinawa
       n 1: the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
       2: 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 [syn: {Okinawa
          campaign}]