Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Ryukyu Islands | Yes | No | No | No |
Okinawa | Yes | No | No | No |
Ryukyu Islands (noun) | Okinawa (noun) |
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a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972) | 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 |
the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands |