ypres

Noun ypres has 3 senses

• ypres(n = noun.act) 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;
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

• ypres(n = noun.act) 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;
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

• ypres(n = noun.act) 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;
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