ypres

Other forms of ypres

plural

ypreses·

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 ypres

What does ypres mean?

ypres means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ypres?

ypres has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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 ypres?

Close synonyms include battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres, battle of Ypres, second battle of Ypres, battle of Ypres. 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 ypres a common word?

ypres is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.