YORKTOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yorktown mean? 

• YORKTOWN (noun)
  The noun YORKTOWN has 2 senses:

1. a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution

2. in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution

  Familiarity information: YORKTOWN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YORKTOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

hamlet; village (a settlement smaller than a town)

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

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

siege of Yorktown; Yorktown

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:

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 ("Yorktown" is a part of...):

American Revolution; American Revolutionary War; American War of Independence; War of American Independence (the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783)