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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats