CORNWALLIS

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• CORNWALLIS (noun)
  The noun CORNWALLIS has 1 sense:

1. commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)

  Familiarity information: CORNWALLIS used as a noun is very rare.

• CORNWALLIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Cornwallis; Cornwallis; First Marquess Cornwallis

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

peer (a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage)

 Context examples 

Then Cornwallis is, doubtless, keeping well up to Brest, though, for my own part, I had rather tempt them out into the open sea.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Admiral Cornwallis is ordered out of Cawsand Bay to cruise off Ushant.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)