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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An arm of the southwest Pacific Ocean bounded by northeast Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was the scene of a US World War II naval victory in May 1942.

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  • proper noun A marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean off the north-east coast of Australia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia
  • noun a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers

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