SAN JUAN HILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does San Juan Hill mean? 

• SAN JUAN HILL (noun)
  The noun SAN JUAN HILL has 1 sense:

1. a hill in eastern Cuba (near Santiago de Cuba) that was captured during the Spanish-American War

  Familiarity information: SAN JUAN HILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAN JUAN HILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hill in eastern Cuba (near Santiago de Cuba) that was captured during the Spanish-American War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders became famous for their charge up San Juan Hill

Instance hypernyms:

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Holonyms ("San Juan Hill" is a part of...):

Cuba (the largest island in the West Indies)