CORAL SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coral Sea mean? 

• CORAL SEA (noun)
  The noun CORAL SEA has 2 senses:

1. an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia

2. a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers

  Familiarity information: CORAL SEA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORAL SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Domain member region:

battle of the Coral Sea; Coral Sea (a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers)

Holonyms ("Coral Sea" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of the Coral Sea; Coral Sea

Instance hypernyms:

naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)

Domain region:

Coral Sea (an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia)

Holonyms ("Coral Sea" 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)

 Context examples 

A country in southeastern Asia, comprising a group of islands and including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia.

(Papua New Guinea, NCI Thesaurus)

In a study, Cornell University scientists report evidence of metal pollution creating danger for soft coral sea fans.

(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)