Somme

[ sawm ]

noun

1. a river in N France, flowing NW to the English Channel: battles, World War I, 1916, 1918; World War II, 1944. 150 miles (241 km) long.
2. a department in N France. 2,424 sq. mi. (6,280 sq. km). : Amiens.

Somme

/ sɔm /

noun

1. a department of N France, in Picardy region. Capital: Amiens. Pop: 557 061 (2003 est). Area: 6277 sq km (2448 sq miles)
2. a river in N France, rising in Aisne department and flowing west to Amiens, then northwest to the English Channel: scene of heavy fighting in World War I. Length: 245 km (152 miles)

Example Sentences

These peaks in cold marine air may have influenced major battles such as the Somme, Verdun, and the Third Battle of Ypres in 1916 and 1917.

From Popular-Science

Smith survived the night patrol, and met Tolkien again on the fringes of the Battle of the Somme that summer.

From The Daily Beast

Just weeks before the Somme, British soldiers put down the rising, leaving much of the city in ruins.

From The Daily Beast

In The Missing of the Somme, one war, the Great War, is more directly his subject.

From The Daily Beast

“The Missing of the Somme” is carved onto the Thiepval Memorial.

From The Daily Beast

The Missing of the Somme was not merely written as a diversion from rewriting Tender is the Night.

From The Daily Beast

At the Somme we put over on the enemy the only new thing that we have been able to spring during the whole three years—the tanks.

From Project Gutenberg

Never shall I forget my first sight of the Somme in summer-time.

From Project Gutenberg

But the real terribleness of the Somme was not in the towns or on the roads.

From Project Gutenberg

I shall never forget my first sight of the Somme battlefields.

From Project Gutenberg

The error was rectified, but only temporarily, at the Somme.

From Project Gutenberg