meuse-argonne

Questions about meuse-argonne

What does meuse-argonne mean?

meuse-argonne 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".

How many syllables are in meuse-argonne?

meuse-argonne has 5 syllables and divides as me-u-se--ar-gonne under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for meuse-argonne?

Close synonyms include Meuse, Meuse River, Argonne, Argonne Forest, 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 meuse-argonne a common word?

meuse-argonne 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.