BATAAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bataan mean? 

• BATAAN (noun)
  The noun BATAAN has 1 sense:

1. the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945

  Familiarity information: BATAAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATAAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Bataan; Corregidor

Instance hypernyms:

beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)

Domain region:

Philippine Islands; Philippines (an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands)

Holonyms ("Bataan" is a part of...):

Second World War; World War 2; World War II (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)