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Definition: Ypres |
YpresNoun1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Ypres" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: YpresSynonyms: battle of Ypres (n), first battle of Ypres (n), second battle of Ypres (n), third battle of Ypres (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The area around Ypres was site of three major battles in World War I. In the First Battle of Ypres (October 31 to November 22, 1914) the British captured the town from the Germans. In the Second Battle of Ypres (April 22 to May 25, 1915) the Germans used poison gas for the first time on the Western Front (they had used it for the first time at at the Battle of Bolimow on January 1, 1915) and captured high ground east of the town. In the Third Battle of Ypres (July 21 to November 6, 1916; also known as the Battle of Passchendaele) the British recaptured the ridge at a terrible cost of lives.
British and United States soldiers in that war often referred to Ypres by the deliberate (presumably humorous) mispronunciation "Wipers".
The Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres is dedicated to the fallen soldiers of the war.
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Crosswords: Ypres |
| English words defined with "Ypres": Ypres lace. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Ypres": Jansenists. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ypres" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (Ypres). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ypres (1925) The Cripple of Ypres (1915) | |
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 | French civilians repairing road in Hooge, Belgium, after battle--The land is one succession of shell craters, now filled with water--Ruins of Ypres in the extreme distance. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Allied troops striving to keep warm in the trenches near Ypres. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ypres, Belgium, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Ypres" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 68.06% of the time. "Ypres" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 68.06% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (plural) | 31.94% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Total | 100.00% | 72 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Ypres": battle of Ypres ♦ first battle of Ypres ♦ second battle of Ypres ♦ third battle of Ypres ♦ Ypres lace. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Ypres": Ypres-menin, Ypres-roulers. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ypres | 75 | hotel ypres | 3 |
battle of ypres | 31 | d rallye ypres | 3 |
rally ypres | 20 | belgium ypres | 3 |
rally westhoek ypres | 10 | salient ypres | 3 |
rallye ypres | 8 | 1 war world ypres | 3 |
battle second ypres | 8 | map ypres | 2 |
wood ypres | 5 | automobile de rallye ypres | 2 |
battle first ypres | 5 | battle picture ypres | 2 |
attack gas ypres | 4 | de rallye ypres | 2 |
ieper ypres | 4 | 2003 rallye ypres | 2 |
2003 rally ypres | 3 | canadian ypres | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Ypres"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | Ieper. (various references) | ||||
Esperanto | Ipro. (various references) | ||||
French | Ypres. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ypresay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Ypres": cypres. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Ypres": cypreses, cypress, cypresses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: preys, pyres. | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: espy, prey, pyes, pyre, reps, ryes, spry. | |
-2 letters: ers, per, pes, pry, pye, rep, res, rye, ser, spy, yep, yes. | |
-3 letters: er, es, pe, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: cypres, osprey, payers, plyers, pryers, repays, sphery, spryer, sypher. | |
+2 letters: apyrase, cyphers, cypress, gyppers, gypster, jaspery, leprosy, ospreys, parleys, parsley, pessary, phrensy, players, prayers, prepays, preyers, purveys, pyrenes, pyrites, pyrones, pyropes, replays, respray, retypes, sparely, spicery, spidery, sprayed, sprayer, spryest, spurrey, syphers, yappers, yaupers, yawpers, yelpers, zephyrs. | |
+3 letters: apyrases, asperity, cypreses, cypruses, decrypts, encrypts, euphrasy, eyedrops, gyplures, gypsters, hyperons, koupreys, lampreys, necropsy, orphreys, overpays, palfreys, paralyse, parsleys, partyers, passerby, perspiry, peytrals, peytrels, plastery, pleurisy, polymers, pretypes, priestly, prophesy, prostyle, protyles, psaltery, pyranose, pyrexias, pyrogens, pyrroles, resprays, resupply, ropeways, serotype, slippery, sparsely, spermary, spinnery, spoofery, spookery, sprayers, sprucely, spryness, spurreys, superbly, superlay, superspy, syphered, tapestry, typebars, vespiary, whispery, yperites. | |
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