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waterloo
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun waterloo has 3 senses
- waterloo(n = noun.location) Array - a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat; Array is a kind of town
- waterloo(n = noun.event) Array - a final crushing defeat; "he met his waterloo" is a kind of defeat, licking
- waterloo(n = noun.act) battle of waterloo - the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon; Array is a kind of pitched battle
is a part of belgique, belgium, kingdom of belgium
is a part of napoleonic wars
OXFORD DICTIONARY
waterloo, n. a decisive defeat or contest (meet one's Waterloo).
Etymology
Waterloo in Belgium, where Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815
THESAURUS
waterloo
beating, collapse, conquering, conquest, crash, deathblow, debacle, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, hiding, lambasting, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, quietus, ruin, smash, subdual, subduing, subjugation, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, whipping
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