BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battle of the Bismarck Sea mean? 

• BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA (noun)
  The noun BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA has 1 sense:

1. a naval battle in World War II; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943

  Familiarity information: BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A naval battle in World War II; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of the Bismarck Sea; Bismarck Sea

Instance hypernyms:

naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)

Domain region:

Bismarck Sea (an arm of the South Pacific to the southwest of the Bismarck Archipelago)

Holonyms ("battle of the Bismarck 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)