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Verdun
[ ver-duhn, vur-; French ver-诲舱苍 ]
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.
Verdun
/ v蓻rd艙虄; 藞v蓻蓹d蕦n /
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聽624 (1999) Ancient nameVerodunum藢v蓻r蓹藞dju藧n蓹m
- Treaty of Verdunan 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)
Example Sentences
Britain's previous oldest parachutist was held by Verdun Hayes who in May 2017 jumped at the age of 101 and 38 days.
Verdun, nestled in a loop of the Meuse River in northern France, had little strategic importance in itself.
鈥淪ickle cell disease is a rare, debilitating and life-threatening blood disorder with significant unmet need,鈥 the FDA鈥檚 Dr. Nicole Verdun said in a statement announcing the approvals.
It's a fascinating collection: one card confirms that Charles de Gaulle, France's World War Two leader and later its president, had been taken prisoner at the battle of Verdun in 1916.
The family soon moved to a modest stucco house on South Verdun Avenue in a working-class Los Angeles neighborhood at the southeastern edge of Baldwin Hills, just north of Inglewood.
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