Associations to the word «Ypres»
Noun
- Munition
- Viscount
- Normandy
- Earle
- Western
- Bucks
- Infantry
- Benedictine
- Horatio
- Arrondissement
- Bravery
- Dead
- Division
- Guards
- Front
- Marlborough
- Defence
- Memorial
- Macedonia
- Earl
- Vc
- Regiment
- Bremen
- France
- Ambulance
- British
- Gate
- Truce
- Troop
- Action
- Barrage
- Underground
- Palestine
- Reinforcement
- Army
- Bluff
- Platoon
- Plateau
- Landing
- Le
- Vicinity
- Advance
- Engagement
- Tyne
- Chateau
- Robertson
- Fourth
- Frontier
- Railway
- Mud
- Nash
- Egypt
- Hill
- Shell
- Line
- Rhine
- Bel
- Soldier
- Canadian
- Ammunition
- April
- St
- Burma
- Nun
Adjective
Wiktionary
YPRES, proper noun. A city in Flanders, Belgium; or, the municipality containing this city.
Dictionary definition
YPRES, noun. Battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery.
YPRES, noun. Battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient.
YPRES, noun. Battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others.
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