Definition of Chateau-Thierry

1. Noun. A World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.

Exact synonyms: Battle Of The Marne, Belleau Wood, Marne River
Generic synonyms: Pitched Battle
Group relationships: First World War, Great War, War To End War, World War 1, World War I
Geographical relationships: France, French Republic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chateau-Thierry

Chasid
Chasidic
Chasidim
Chasidism
Chastek
Chastek paralysis
Chateau-Thierry (current term)
Chateaubriand
Chateura
Chateura pelagica
Chatham
Chatham Islands Penguins
Chatham Islands penguin
Chattahoochee
Chattahoochee River
Chattanooga
Chattanoogan
Chattanoogans
Chatty Cathy
Chaubunagungamaug
Chaucer

Literary usage of Chateau-Thierry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1920)
"French reserves. aided by American troops. check German thrust toward Chateau-Thierry; another attack on American positions at Cantigny hurled back by ..."

2. Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker (1919)
"CHAPTER XIX THE Chateau-Thierry SALIENT THE scene of 94 Squadron's operation now changes from the Toul sector to the Chateau-Thierry region. ..."

3. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History. by John Lothrop Motley (1861)
"On the 10th of June, 1584, he expired at Chateau Thierry, in great torture sweating blood from every pore, and under circumstances which, as usual, ..."

4. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"LIGHT SHADED AREA WON BY GERMANS; DARK SHADED AREA AT BOTTOM WON BACK BY AMERICANS NEAR Chateau-Thierry the latter stretched the line into a segment with a ..."

5. Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, the Second and Third by Sir Archibald Alison (1861)
"12. mirail, he marched with his whole disposable force in hand towards Chateau-Thierry, where the third corps under D'York, joined to the remains of Sacken, ..."

6. My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard (1916)
""I've seen Chateau Thierry captured by 'the Germany three times. ... We were buoyed ;up by the hope that Chateau Thierry again would be French. ..."

7. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1919)
"CHAPTER LV AROUND Chateau-Thierry MEANTIME, some distance to the left of this American sector at Cantigny, the German thrust between Noyon and Rheims had ..."

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