ardennes

English Thesaurus

1. a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	plateau, tableland,
definition	:	a relatively flat highland (noun.object)

part meronym	:	champagne, champagne-ardenne,
definition	:	a region of northeastern France (noun.location)

domain member region	:	ardennes counteroffensive, battle of the ardennes bulge, battle of the bulge,
definition	:	a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise (noun.act)