great war
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1. a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918 (noun.act)
instance hypernym | : | world war, |
definition | : | a war in which the major nations of the world are involved (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of caporetto, caporetto, |
definition | : | battle of World War I (1917); Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | dardanelles, dardanelles campaign, |
definition | : | the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of jutland, jutland, |
definition | : | an indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916); fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of verdun, verdun, |
definition | : | a battle in World War I (1916); in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I the German offensive was stopped (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of ypres, first battle of ypres, ypres, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of ypres, second battle of ypres, ypres, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of ypres, third battle of ypres, ypres, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
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