El Alamein

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]