battle of ypres | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun battle of ypres has 3 senses

Ypres, battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres - 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
--₁ is a kind of pitched battle
--₁ is a part of
World War I, World War 1, Great War, First World War, War to End War
Ypres, battle of Ypres, second battle of Ypres - 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
--₂ is a kind of pitched battle
--₂ is a part of
World War I, World War 1, Great War, First World War, War to End War
Ypres, battle of Ypres, first battle of Ypres - 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
--₃ is a kind of pitched battle
--₃ is a part of
World War I, World War 1, Great War, First World War, War to End War