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

1 sense of alamo

Sense 1
Alamo -- (a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico)
       INSTANCE OF=> siege, besieging, beleaguering, military blockade -- (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)
       INSTANCE OF=> slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery -- (the savage and excessive killing of many people)