KWAJALEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kwajalein mean? 

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

1. an atoll in the western Marshall Islands that was used as a Japanese air and naval base during World War II

2. an amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese air base

  Familiarity information: KWAJALEIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KWAJALEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An atoll in the western Marshall Islands that was used as a Japanese air and naval base during World War II

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain member region:

Kwajalein (an amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese air base)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

An amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese air base

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:

Kwajalein (an atoll in the western Marshall Islands that was used as a Japanese air and naval base during World War II)

Holonyms ("Kwajalein" 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)