MARSTON MOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marston Moor mean? 

• MARSTON MOOR (noun)
  The noun MARSTON MOOR has 2 senses:

1. a former moor in northern England

2. a battle in 1644 in which the Parliamentarians under the earl of Manchester defeated the Royalists under Prince Rupert

  Familiarity information: MARSTON MOOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARSTON MOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former moor in northern England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

moor; moorland (open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss)

Holonyms ("Marston Moor" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A battle in 1644 in which the Parliamentarians under the earl of Manchester defeated the Royalists under Prince Rupert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of Marston Moor; Marston Moor

Instance hypernyms:

pitched battle (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("Marston Moor" is a part of...):

English Civil War (civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I; 1644-1648)

 Context examples 

My conjecture had been correct: the strangers had slipped in before us, and they now stood by the vault of the Rochesters, their backs towards us, viewing through the rails the old time-stained marble tomb, where a kneeling angel guarded the remains of Damer de Rochester, slain at Marston Moor in the time of the civil wars, and of Elizabeth, his wife.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)