Noun
- 1. Okinawa
- usage: the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
- 2. Okinawa, Okinawa campaign
- usage: a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans
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