PHILIPPINE SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Philippine Sea mean? 

• PHILIPPINE SEA (noun)
  The noun PHILIPPINE SEA has 1 sense:

1. a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte

  Familiarity information: PHILIPPINE SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHILIPPINE SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of the Philippine Sea; Philippine Sea

Instance hypernyms:

naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)

Domain region:

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

Holonyms ("Philippine 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, comprised of an archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam.

(Philippines, NCI Thesaurus)