English noun: second battle of Ypres | |||
1. | second battle of Ypres (act) 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 | ||
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 | ||