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gallipoli
/ɡəˈlɪpəli/
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What does gallipoli mean?
proper noun
- A town in Lecce, Apulia, Italy.
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proper noun
- (historical) The Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916) in World War I.
- (dated) Synonym of Gelibolu: a town and municipality of Turkey, located on the Gallipoli peninsula (sense 1).
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They rushed off an expedition to Gallipoli, and somebody forgot the water-supply, and at one time they had ninety-five thousand cases of dysentery!
It has been thought practicable to cut a canal across the peninsula of Gallipoli from the outlet of the Sea of Marmora into the Gulf of Saros.
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The locking of the armies in the trenches, the sinking of the Lusitania, the murder of Nurse Cavell, the use of poison-gas and liquid fire, the submarine warfare, the Gallipoli campaign, the hundred other incidents of the war, almost stunned us at first, and then our minds began to compass the train of events and develop a perspective.