third battle of ypres

Noun third battle of ypres has 1 sense

• third battle of ypres(n = noun.act) battle of ypres, 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;
is a kind of pitched battle
is a part of first world war, great war, war to end war, world war 1, world war i