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BATTLE OF MIDWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
Synonyms:
Battle of Midway; Midway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)
Domain region:
Midway Islands (an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base)
Holonyms ("Battle of Midway" 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)
