TARAWA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tarawa mean? 

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

1. national capital of Kiribati

2. battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting

  Familiarity information: TARAWA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARAWA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

National capital of Kiribati

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bairiki; Tarawa

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Makin; Tarawa; Tarawa-Makin

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:

Gilbert Islands (a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979)

Holonyms ("Tarawa" 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)