okinawa   (TTS Sound)

The noun okinawa has 2 senses

• Okinawa -- (the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands)


• Okinawa, Okinawa campaign -- (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)