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

1 sense of third battle of ypres

Sense 1
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)
       INSTANCE OF=> pitched battle -- (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)