tarawa

Noun tarawa has 2 senses

• tarawa(n = noun.location) bairiki - national capital of Kiribati; Array
is a kind of national capital
is a part of kiribati, republic of kiribati

• tarawa(n = noun.act) makin, tarawa-makin - battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting; Array
is a kind of amphibious assault
is a part of second world war, world war 2, world war ii