Verdun

[ ver-duhn, vur-; French ver-dœn ]

/ vɛrˈdʌn, vɜr-; French vɛrˈdœ̃ /

noun

a fortress city in NE France, on the Meuse River. A German offensive was stopped here in 1916 in the bloodiest fighting of World War I.

a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.

Example sentences from the Web for verdun

Francois Hollande should say, like Marshal Petain at Verdun,They shall not pass… gas.

PJ O’Rourke on Putin’s Crimea for Help |P. J. O’Rourke |March 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It would be unfunny, for different reasons, if set at Verdun or Gettysburg or Stalingrad.

A Rather Misguided Catch-22 Reaction |David Frum |January 2, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Alistair first came into fame with his book about the Battle of Verdun, The Price of Glory.

Lessons from Another War |Christopher Buckley |November 12, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
We were now in the centre of activity of the army defending Verdun.

The White Road to Verdun |Kathleen Burke

My men are moving toward Verdun, conducted by Sergeant Thibaut.

A Blue Devil of France |G. P. Capart
I will telephone to him an explanation as soon as we arrive in Verdun.

The Doctor of Pimlico |William Le Queux
The city of Verdun is situated at the bottom of the Meuse Valley on both sides of the river.

They Shall Not Pass |Frank H. Simonds
The senator had told him a few days before that her brother, the artilleryman, had just been killed at Verdun.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |Vicente Blasco Ibanez

British Dictionary definitions for verdun

Verdun

/ (French vɛrdœ̃, English ˈvɛədʌn) /

noun

a fortified town in NE France, on the Meuse: scene of the longest and most severe battle (1916) of World War I, in which the French repelled a powerful German offensive. Pop: 19 624 (1999) Ancient name: Verodunum (ˌvɛrəˈdjuːnəm)

Treaty of Verdun an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)

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