IRONSIDES

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

1. English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)

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

• IRONSIDES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cromwell; Ironsides; Oliver Cromwell

Instance hypernyms:

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

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

 Context examples 

For an instant, in his earnest gaze and reverent manner, we seemed to catch a glimpse of the deeper, truer Nelson, the man of the Eastern counties, steeped in the virile Puritanism which sent from that district the Ironsides to fashion England within, and the Pilgrim Fathers to spread it without.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)