Synonyms for okinawa
ˌoʊ kəˈnaʊ wə, -ˈnɑ wəok·i·nawa

Princeton's WordNet

1. Okinawanoun

   the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands

2. Okinawa, Okinawa campaignnoun

   a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans

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1. • Ryukyu Islands
   • Campaign
   • Island

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1. List of paraphrases for "okinawa":

   okinawan, ryukyu, kyushu-okinawa

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1. United States:

   The base issue is tied to all of our other problems but we don't want to just limit the discussion to the United States military presence, we need to open up a dialogue about Okinawa's future.

2. Tomoaki Iwai:

   The central government always just talks about security and the U.S.-Japan alliance, giving the sense they aren't thinking seriously about Okinawa's benefit, there is a sense of money being used as a sweetener.

3. Peter Galvin:

   So they're going to ignore the Trump connections with the Russians and go straight to investigating efforts to save endangered wildlife like the Okinawa dugong? It's an anti-wildlife agenda in search of a wild conspiracy theory.

4. Daigo Shiomitsu:

   Until yesterday, there was no coastal observation unit west of the main Okinawa island. It was a vacuum we needed to fill, it means we can keep watch on territory surrounding Japan and respond to all situations.

5. Takeshi Tsuji:

   Zones like the one we investigated are not uncommon along rifts, so I expect that similar reservoirs may exist elsewhere in the Okinawa Trough as well as other sediment-covered continental back-arc basins around the world.