ENIWETOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eniwetok mean? 

• ENIWETOK (noun)
  The noun ENIWETOK has 2 senses:

1. an atoll in the Marshall Islands; site of an amphibious assault in World War II; later used temporarily by the United States to test atomic bombs

2. World War II (February 1944); American infantry landed and captured a Japanese stronghold

  Familiarity information: ENIWETOK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENIWETOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An atoll in the Marshall Islands; site of an amphibious assault in World War II; later used temporarily by the United States to test atomic bombs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

atoll (an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon)

Domain member region:

Eniwetok (World War II (February 1944); American infantry landed and captured a Japanese stronghold)

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

Marshall Islands (a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

World War II (February 1944); American infantry landed and captured a Japanese stronghold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

amphibious assault (an amphibious operation attacking a land base that is carried out by troops that are landed by naval ships)

Domain region:

Eniwetok (an atoll in the Marshall Islands; site of an amphibious assault in World War II; later used temporarily by the United States to test atomic bombs)

Holonyms ("Eniwetok" 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)