Waterloo

1 a final crushing defeat; "he met his Waterloo"

2 the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat; Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon [syn: Battle of Waterloo]

Many things bear the name Waterloo. They are almost all named directly or indirectly after the settlement of Waterloo in Belgium and the famous battle which was fought near there. The largest cities with this name are Waterloo, Ontario and Waterloo, Iowa.

Battle

• Battle of Waterloo

Places

In Australia

• Waterloo, New South Wales
• Waterloo, Tasmania
• Waterloo, Western Australia

In Belgium

• Waterloo, Belgium

In Canada

• Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario
  • The city of Waterloo, Ontario
  • University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario
  • Kitchener—Waterloo, an electoral district in Ontario
• Waterloo, Nova Scotia
• Waterloo, Quebec

In Hong Kong

• Waterloo Road, Kowloon
• Waterloo Station of MTR

In the Netherlands

• Waterlooplein, Amsterdam

In New Zealand

• Waterloo, New Zealand (a suburb of Lower Hutt)

In Sierra Leone

• Waterloo, Sierra Leone

In the United Kingdom

• Waterloo, Derbyshire
• Waterloo, Dorset
• Waterloo, Sefton, Merseyside
• Waterloo, North Lanarkshire
• Waterloo, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• Waterlooville, Hampshire
• Lambeth, London, more commonly referred to as Waterloo due to the railway station there
  • Waterloo station, London
  • Waterloo Bridge, London
  • Waterloo Road, London
• Waterloo Bridge, Betws-y-Coed

In the United States

• Waterloo, Alabama
• Waterloo, Illinois
• Waterloo, Indiana
• Waterloo, Iowa
• Waterloo, Kansas
• Waterloo, Kentucky
• Waterloo, Louisiana
• Waterloo, Missouri
• Waterloo, Nebraska
• Waterloo, New Hampshire
• Waterloo, New Jersey
• Waterloo, New Mexico
• Waterloo, New York (village)
• Waterloo, New York (town)
• Waterloo, Oregon
• Waterloo, Pennsylvania
• Waterloo, South Carolina
• Waterloo, Tennessee
• Waterloo, Texas (former name for Austin, Texas)
• Waterloo, Clarke County, Virginia
• Waterloo, Fauquier County, Virginia
• Waterloo, West Virginia
• Waterloo, Wisconsin
• Waterloo, Grant County, Wisconsin
• Waterloo, Jefferson County, Wisconsin

Near Antarctica

• "Waterloo", the Russian name of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands

Entertainment

• Waterloo (album), by ABBA
• Waterloo (song), by ABBA
• Waterloo (film)
• "Waterloo Sunset", a song by The Kinks
• Waterloo to Anywhere, an album by Dirty Pretty Things
• Waterloo Records, an independent music store in Austin, Texas.

Other

• Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company
• Waterloo Hydrogeologic, a groundwater software, training and consulting company
• Waterloo R.F.C., a rugby union club based in Liverpool
• The name of ten different board games

Notes

beating, collapse, conquering, conquest, crash, deathblow, debacle, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, hiding, lambasting, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, quietus, ruin, smash, subdual, subduing, subjugation, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, whipping