'Okinawa' definitions:
Definition of 'Okinawa'
(from WordNet)
noun
The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
noun
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, Okinawa campaign]