a port in N France, on the Strait of Dover: scene of the evacuation of British and other Allied troops after the fall of France in 1940; industrial centre with an oil refinery and naval shipbuilding yards. Pop: 70 850 (1999)
Dunkirk in American English
(ˈdʌnˌkɜrk)
seaport in N France, on the North Sea: scene of the evacuation of over 300,000 Allied troopsunder fire (1940) as France fell to Germany: pop. 70,000
Examples of 'Dunkirk' in a sentence
Dunkirk
Her father had been at Dunkirk during the war.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is a myth that a large number of civilian boat owners sailed their own craft to Dunkirk, although a handful did.