BATTLE OF ATLANTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battle of Atlanta mean? 

• BATTLE OF ATLANTA (noun)
  The noun BATTLE OF ATLANTA has 1 sense:

1. a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864

  Familiarity information: BATTLE OF ATLANTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLE OF ATLANTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Atlanta; battle of Atlanta

Instance hypernyms:

beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)

Domain region:

Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)

Holonyms ("battle of Atlanta" is a part of...):

American Civil War; United States Civil War; War between the States (civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865)