dunkerque   (TTS Sound)

The noun dunkerque has 2 senses

• Dunkirk, Dunkerque -- (a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II)


• Dunkirk, Dunkerque -- (an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire)