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

1 sense of battle of atlanta

Sense 1
Atlanta, battle of Atlanta -- (a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864)
       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)