Home › Words › V › verdunverdun/və(ɹ)ˈdʌn/verdun means A small city in Meuse department, Grand Est, France, the site of a ten-month long battle in World War I.verdun is pronounced /və(ɹ)ˈdʌn/.EtymologyFrom French Verdun, from Latin Virodunum, from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wiros (“man”) + *dūnom (“fortress”), thus literally, “manly/powerful fortress”.nameA small city in Meuse department, Grand Est, France, the site of a ten-month long battle in World War I.A borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.nounA 16th-century form of rapier.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).