What is another word for El Alamein?

Pronunciation: [ˌɛl ɐlˈe͡ɪmiːn] (IPA)

El Alamein is a historical site in Egypt, known for being the site of one of the most important battles of World War II. Synonyms for El Alamein could include names of the armies and leaders who fought there, such as the British Eighth Army, General Bernard Montgomery, and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel of the German Afrika Korps. Other synonyms could include phrases related to the battle, such as the North African Campaign, Operation Lightfoot, or the Battle of Alam Halfa. In literary works, writers could use descriptors like the Desert War, the Battle of Egypt, or the Battle of the Sand Dunes to refer to this famous site.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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  • Children in Australia are still named after movies and sporting events. You can tell roughly the year the swimming star Shane Gould was born. It was about the time was released. There was a famous case of a returned serviceman who named his son after all the campaigns he had been through in the Western Desert. The kid was called William Bardia Escarpment Qattara Depression Mersa Matruh Tobruk El Alamein Benghazi Tripoli Harris.
    Clive James
  • The Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. [...] Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and never had been. At the time of our raid, he was with the 15th Panzer Division, somewhere west of Kidney Ridge, in the thick of the fighting at El Alamein.
    Steven Pressfield

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