English Explanatory Dictionary

Pearl Harbor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placename
  2. A deep water harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, United States in the Pacific.
  3. A naval base in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, United States: a US Navy base
  4. Alternative form of Pearl Harbour.
  5. The attack on Pearl Harbor.
noun
  1. A sneak attack, often using underhanded measures.
  2. A seminal dramatic event that unites a community and arouses it into action against an enemy.
verb
  1. To attack by surprise; to subject to a sneak attack.
  2. To take rudely by surprise.

Pronunciation

/ˌpɝ˞l ˈhɑɹbɚ/ /ˌpɜːl ˈhɑːbə/ En-au-Pearl Harbor.ogg

Word forms

Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbour Pearl Harbors Pearl Harboring Pearl Harbored

Etymology

Calque of Hawaiian Wai Momi (“pearl water”). The extended senses allude to the surprise attack executed by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the harbor on December 7, 1941.

Related words

Pearl Pearl Harbour

Translations

Arabic: بِيرْل هَارْبَر Belarusian: Перл-Ха́рбар Bulgarian: Пърл Ха́рбър Carpathian Rusyn: Перл Га́рбор Chinese Mandarin: 珍珠港 Dutch: Pearl Harbor Finnish: Pearl Harbor German: Pearl Harbor Greek: Περλ Χάρμπορ Hawaiian: Wai Momi Hebrew: פרל הארבור Hindi: पर्ल हार्बर Icelandic: Perluhöfn Japanese: 真珠湾 Japanese: パールハーバー Korean: 진주만 Korean: 펄 하버 Macedonian: Перл Харбор Marathi: पर्ल हार्बर Persian: پرل هاربر Polish: Pearl Harbor Portuguese: Pearl Harbor Russian: Пёрл-Ха́рбор Serbo-Croatian: Перл Харбор Serbo-Croatian: Pearl Harbor Serbo-Croatian: Perl Harbor Slovene: Pearl Harbor Thai: ท่าเรือเพิร์ล Ukrainian: Перл-Ха́рбор Vietnamese: Trân Châu Cảng
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on P Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary