Definitions for Somme

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Somme Somme

Spelling: [sawm]

IPA: /sɔm/

Somme is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Somme (emmos).

Definitions for Somme

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. 2424 sq. mi. (6280 sq. km). Capital: Amiens.

Examples for Somme

When I last wrote, on the Somme in 1915, I was sickening with typhoid fever.

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

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

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

But it is undeniable that they were badly "rattled" on the Somme.

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

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

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

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

This retirement on the Somme is clever, though it may tell on the morale of his men.