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

2 senses of yorktown

Sense 1
Yorktown -- (a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution)
       INSTANCE OF=> village, hamlet -- (a settlement smaller than a town)

Sense 2
Yorktown, siege of Yorktown -- (in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution)
       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)