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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. national capital of Kiribati;
[syn: Tarawa, Bairiki]

2. battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting;
[syn: Tarawa, Makin, Tarawa-Makin]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Tarawa
    n 1: national capital of Kiribati [syn: Tarawa, Bairiki]
    2: battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943);
       United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese
       after bitter fighting [syn: Tarawa, Makin, Tarawa-
       Makin]