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

1 sense of battle of hastings

Sense 1
Hastings, battle of Hastings -- (the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest)
       INSTANCE OF=> pitched battle -- (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)