TRAFALGAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trafalgar mean? 

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

1. a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAFALGAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of Trafalgar; Trafalgar

Instance hypernyms:

naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)

Domain region:

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

Holonyms ("Trafalgar" is a part of...):

Napoleonic Wars (a series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times; 1799-1815)

 Context examples 

“Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?” he asked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, in his fancy, may he see himself sometimes, gracing the vacant pedestal in Trafalgar Square, and adding one more to the horrors of the London streets.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was in the Trafalgar action, and has been in the East Indies since; he was stationed there, I believe, several years.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Soon I came upon the source of it, for in the center of a small clearing I found a lake—or a pool, rather, for it was not larger than the basin of the Trafalgar Square fountain—of some black, pitch-like stuff, the surface of which rose and fell in great blisters of bursting gas.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)