BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA

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

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

1. a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of the Coral Sea; Coral Sea

Instance hypernyms:

naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)

Domain region:

Coral Sea (an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia)

Holonyms ("battle of the Coral 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)