Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun battle_of_britain

1 sense of battle of britain

Sense 1
Battle of Britain -- (the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it)
       INSTANCE OF=> battle, conflict, fight, engagement -- (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement")