pearl harbor

1. 1.

   a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941

   Broaderseaport

   Part ofOahu

Questions about pearl harbor

What does pearl harbor mean?

pearl harbor means "a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941".

Is pearl harbor a common word?

pearl harbor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.