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.
Wise words
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is
essential is invisible to the eye.