WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wilderness Campaign mean? 

• WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN (noun)
  The noun WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN has 1 sense:

1. American Civil War; a series of indecisive battles in Grant's campaign (1864) against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses

  Familiarity information: WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American Civil War; a series of indecisive battles in Grant's campaign (1864) against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

campaign; military campaign (several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints))

Meronyms (parts of "Wilderness Campaign"):

battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse; Spotsylvania (a battle between the armies of Grant and Lee during the Wilderness Campaign)

Domain region:

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Holonyms ("Wilderness Campaign" 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)