MEXICAN WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mexican War mean? 

• MEXICAN WAR (noun)
  The noun MEXICAN WAR has 1 sense:

1. after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000

  Familiarity information: MEXICAN WAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEXICAN WAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

After disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Meronyms (parts of "Mexican War"):

Buena Vista (a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico)

Chapultepec (a pitched battle in the Mexican War that resulted in a major victory for American forces over Mexican forces at a locality south of Mexico City (1847))