Bataan

American  

[buh-tan, -tahn, bah-tah-ahn] / bəˈtæn, -ˈtɑn, ˌbɑ tɑˈɑn /

Or Bataán

noun

1. a peninsula on W Luzon, in the Philippines: U.S. troops surrendered to Japanese April 9, 1942.

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Bataan British  

/ bəˈtæn, -ˈtɑːn /

noun

1. a peninsula in the Philippines, in W Luzon: scene of the surrender of US and Philippine forces to the Japanese during World War II, later retaken by American forces

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Example Sentences

In January, the US and UK also began carrying out air strikes in retaliation, including from the USS Bataan.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2024

Under cover of darkness, a single fighter jet roars as it rips across the deck of the USS Bataan, a vast US assault ship.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2024

Both vessels and the Bataan can support rotary aircraft; the Bataan can also carry and support Marine Corps’ F-35 vertical takeoff fighter aircraft.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2024

Completed in 1984, the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was mothballed two years later following the ouster of the older Marcos, the deadly Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and corruption allegations.

From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2023

But he would not be back, so far as those boys in Bataan were concerned, and neither would the soldier boy I’d married.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver