Source : WordNet®

Okinawa
     n 1: the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
     2: 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 [syn: {Okinawa
        campaign}]