WATERLOO


Meaning of WATERLOO in English

|wȯ]d.ə(r)|lü, |wä], ]tə-\ noun

( -s )

Usage: sometimes capitalized

Etymology: from Waterloo, Belgium, scene of Napoleon's defeat (1815)

: a decisive or disastrous defeat or reverse

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