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el alamein - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
El Alamein
n 1: a village to the west of Alexandria on the northern coast
of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the
Germans in 1942
2: a pitched battle in World War II (1942) resulting in a
decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery
over German troops under Rommel [syn: El Alamein, Al Alamayn
, Battle of El Alamein]
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