HARPERS FERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Harpers Ferry mean? 

• HARPERS FERRY (noun)
  The noun HARPERS FERRY has 1 sense:

1. a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there

  Familiarity information: HARPERS FERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARPERS FERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Harper's Ferry; Harpers Ferry

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Harpers Ferry" is a part of...):

Mountain State; W.V.; West Virginia; WV (a state in east central United States)