Associations to the word «Tarawa»

Wiktionary

TARAWA, proper noun. An atoll in the central Pacific Ocean belonging to the state of Kiribati.

Dictionary definition

TARAWA, noun. National capital of Kiribati.
TARAWA, noun. Battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope