midway
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1. 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)
| instance hypernym | : | naval battle, |
| definition | : | a pitched battle between naval fleets (noun.act) |
| part meronym | : | second world war, world war 2, world war ii, |
| definition | : | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945 (noun.act) |
| domain region | : | midway islands, |
| definition | : | an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 miles to the northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base (noun.location) |
2. the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located (noun.location)
| hypernym | : | parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, |
| definition | : | an extended area of land (noun.location) |
3. equally distant from the extremes (adj.all)
| similar | : | central, |
| definition | : | in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area (adj.all) |
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