midway islands

English Thesaurus

1. an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	atoll,
definition	:	an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon (noun.object)

part meronym	:	hawaiian islands, sandwich islands,
definition	:	a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific (noun.location)

domain member region	:	battle of midway, midway,
definition	:	naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands (noun.act)