Associations to the word «Ypres»
Noun
- Somme
- Ghent
- Flanders
- Polygon
- Marne
- Chlorine
- Lille
- Belgium
- Offensive
- Trench
- Graves
- Mon
- Mont
- Quentin
- Antwerp
- Allies
- Battle
- Belgian
- Fusilier
- Boulogne
- Battlefield
- Battalion
- Ridge
- Burgher
- Retreat
- Kitchener
- Casualty
- Calais
- Cornelius
- Denton
- Canal
- German
- Wood
- Gallantry
- Fields
- Fighting
- Deployment
- Valour
- Flank
- Woods
- Burial
- Gaza
- Bombardment
- Brigade
- Nord
- Rally
- Artillery
- Bishopric
- Corps
- Sanctuary
- Rhineland
- Commonwealth
- Cloth
- Gas
- Matilda
- Albert
- Havre
- Freddy
- Cemetery
- Mustard
- Marshal
- Siege
- Brussels
- Xix
- French
- Champagne
- Howitzer
- Warfare
- Redoubt
- Restart
- Capture
- Sector
- Rye
- Attack
- Cavalry
- Bayonet
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
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time
as the bullets go flying through space.