belgique
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1. a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (noun.location)
| part holonym | : | antwerp, antwerpen, anvers, |
| definition | : | a busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river; it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460 (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | bruges, city of bridges, |
| definition | : | a city in northwestern Belgium that is connected by canal to the North Sea; in the 13th century it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League; the old city (known as the City of Bridges) is a popular tourist attraction (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | charleroi, |
| definition | : | city in southwestern Belgium; center of an industrial region (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | gand, gent, ghent, |
| definition | : | port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | liege, luik, |
| definition | : | city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | namur, |
| definition | : | a city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | waterloo, |
| definition | : | a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | meuse, meuse river, |
| definition | : | a European river; flows into the North Sea (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | sambre, sambre river, |
| definition | : | a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse at Namur (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | scheldt, scheldt river, |
| definition | : | a river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | europe, |
| definition | : | the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles (noun.object) |
| member holonym | : | belgian, |
| definition | : | a native or inhabitant of Belgium (noun.person) |
| member holonym | : | fleming, |
| definition | : | a native of Flanders or a Flemish-speaking Belgian (noun.person) |
| member holonym | : | walloon, |
| definition | : | a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium (noun.person) |
| member meronym | : | nato, north atlantic treaty organization, |
| definition | : | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security (noun.group) |
| member meronym | : | benelux, |
| definition | : | a customs union comprising Belgium and Netherlands and Luxembourg (noun.group) |
| domain member region | : | bouvines, |
| definition | : | in 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages (noun.act) |
| domain member region | : | battle of fontenoy, fontenoy, |
| definition | : | a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland (noun.act) |
| domain member region | : | battle of waterloo, waterloo, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
| domain member region | : | battle of ypres, first battle of ypres, ypres, |
| definition | : | battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others (noun.act) |
| domain member region | : | battle of ypres, second battle of ypres, ypres, |
| definition | : | battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient (noun.act) |
| domain member region | : | battle of ypres, third battle of ypres, ypres, |
| definition | : | battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery (noun.act) |
| domain member region | : | commune, |
| definition | : | the smallest administrative district of several European countries (noun.location) |
| derivation | : | belgian, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | belgian, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people (adj.pert) |
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