Definitions for okinawa

Overview of noun okinawa

The noun okinawa has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. Okinawa

(the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands)

2. 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)