caporetto

1. 1.

   battle of World War I (1917); Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces

   Synonymsbattle of Caporetto

   Broaderpitched battle

   Part ofWorld War I

   Italy

Other forms of caporetto

plural

caporettoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about caporetto

What does caporetto mean?

caporetto means "battle of World War I (1917); Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces".

How many syllables are in caporetto?

caporetto has 4 syllables: ca-po-ret-to. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for caporetto?

Close synonyms include battle of Caporetto. 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 caporetto a common word?

caporetto 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.