THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • battle of Ypres (what does battle of Ypres mean?)
   • Ypres (what does Ypres mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) third battle of Ypres is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • pitched battle (what does pitched battle mean?)