Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun first_marquess_cornwallis

1 sense of first marquess cornwallis

Sense 1
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, First Marquess Cornwallis -- (commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805))
       INSTANCE OF=> peer -- (a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage)
       INSTANCE OF=> general, full general -- (a general officer of the highest rank)