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IWO JIMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)
Synonyms:
invasion of Iwo; Iwo; Iwo Jima
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:
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
Holonyms ("Iwo Jima" 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:
The largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("Iwo Jima" is a part of...):
Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)
