Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bismarck_sea

2 senses of bismarck sea

Sense 1
Bismarck Sea -- (an arm of the South Pacific to the southwest of the Bismarck Archipelago)
       INSTANCE OF=> sea -- (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Sense 2
Bismarck Sea, battle of the Bismarck Sea -- (a naval battle in World War II; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943)
       INSTANCE OF=> naval battle -- (a pitched battle between naval fleets)