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CORAL SEA
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I. (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
Synonyms:
battle of the Coral Sea; Coral Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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 ("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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
Domain member region:
battle of the Coral Sea; Coral Sea (a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers)
Holonyms ("Coral Sea" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
