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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King