OKINAWA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Okinawa mean? 

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

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

  Familiarity information: OKINAWA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OKINAWA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Okinawa"):

Naha City (the chief city in the Ryukyu Islands)

Domain member region:

Okinawa; Okinawa campaign (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)

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

Ryukyu Islands (a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Okinawa; Okinawa campaign

Instance hypernyms:

campaign; military campaign (several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints))

Domain region:

Okinawa (the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands)

Holonyms ("Okinawa" 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 

Denotes the inhabitants of the japanese island of Okinawa, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Okinawan, NCI Thesaurus)

However, the information provided concerning the Grayback contained a mistranslation, placing its probable location according to the New York Times about 100 miles from Okinawa, to the east-southeast.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)

Studying life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Japan's island of Okinawa, microbiologists led by a team from the University of Vienna found that certain microbes thrive in conditions similar to those on Enceladus.

(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)

The wreck was located about 50 miles (80 km) south of Okinawa, Japan at a depth of over 1400 feet (about 430 meters), far from where the Navy's records initially predicted it would be.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)