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

1 sense of siege of orleans

Sense 1
Orleans, siege of Orleans -- (a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429)
       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)