English noun: third battle of Ypres | |||
1. | third battle of Ypres (act) 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 | ||
Synonyms | battle of Ypres, Ypres | ||
Instance hypernym | pitched battle | ||
Part meronym | First World War, Great War, War to End War, World War 1, World War I | ||
Domain region | Belgique, Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium | ||