BATTLE OF BRITAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Battle of Britain mean? 

• BATTLE OF BRITAIN (noun)
  The noun BATTLE OF BRITAIN has 1 sense:

1. the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it

  Familiarity information: BATTLE OF BRITAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLE OF BRITAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

battle; conflict; engagement; fight (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("Battle of Britain" is a part of...):

Second World War; World War 2; World War II (a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945)