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VICKSBURG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vicksburg mean? 

VICKSBURG (noun)
  The noun VICKSBURG has 2 senses:

1. a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halvesplay

2. a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrenderedplay

  Familiarity information: VICKSBURG used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VICKSBURG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

siege of Vicksburg; Vicksburg

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:

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)

Holonyms ("Vicksburg" 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)


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