Pearl Harbor

noun

1. a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.

2. any significant or crippling defeat, betrayal, loss, etc., that comes unexpectedly.

Pearl Harbor

noun

1. an almost landlocked inlet of the Pacific on the S coast of the island of Oahu, Hawaii: site of a US naval base attacked by the Japanese in 1941, resulting in the US entry into World War II

Pearl Harbor

1. A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships. In asking Congress to declare war on Japan the next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the day of the attack as “a date which will live in infamy.”

Example Sentences

Japan had attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

From BBC

The “Pearl Harbor” actor, 51, said she felt compelled to announce her mother’s death because she had to register the “Space Island One” actor’s death certificate.

From Los Angeles Times

Fujioka and I talked in the plaza where buses pulled up after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to transport Japanese Americans to prison camps.

From Los Angeles Times

After all, The United States and its leader at the time, President Franklin Roosevelt, had a great hatred of Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack.

From Salon

Navy and the Shoups were stationed in Honolulu when Pearl Harbor was bombed.

From Los Angeles Times