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An atoll in the western Marshall Islands that was used as a Japanese air and naval base during World War II
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kwajalein
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kwajalein \Kwajalein\ prop. n. A battle of World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese airbase.
Usage examples of kwajalein.
Paynter caught a fiddler crab on the beach at Kwajalein, a thing the size of a pie, with one huge multicolored claw.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, the Vice-Chairman of the People's Republic of China, Jeff Thompson from Kwajalein, politicians from Britain and Japan, scientists from other lands, people Stoner had never heard of--all the voices of Earth spoke to him, one by one, growing fainter, farther removed, whispering against the crackling background radio noise of the cosmos.