LEYTE ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leyte Island mean? 

• LEYTE ISLAND (noun)
  The noun LEYTE ISLAND has 1 sense:

1. a battle in World War II; the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944; the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese

  Familiarity information: LEYTE ISLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEYTE ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A battle in World War II; the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944; the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Leyte; Leyte invasion; Leyte Island

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:

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

Holonyms ("Leyte Island" 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)