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ARDENNES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ardennes mean?
• ARDENNES (noun)
The noun ARDENNES has 1 sense:
1. a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II
Familiarity information: ARDENNES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)
Domain member region:
Ardennes counteroffensive; Battle of the Ardennes Bulge; Battle of the Bulge (a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise)
Holonyms ("Ardennes" is a part of...):
Champagne; Champagne-Ardenne (a region of northeastern France)
Context examples
We made great havoc in Touraine, until we came into Romorantin, where I chanced upon a gold chain and two bracelets of jasper, which were stolen from me the same day by a black-eyed wench from the Ardennes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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