argonne forest

Questions about argonne forest

What does argonne forest mean?

argonne forest means "an American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November 11".

What is another word for argonne forest?

Close synonyms include Meuse, Meuse River, Argonne, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is argonne forest a common word?

argonne forest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.