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

1 sense of pleven

Sense 1
Plevna, Pleven -- (the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days)
       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)