Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River;
2.
an important battle in the American Civil War (1862);
the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee;
[syn: Fredericksburg, Battle of Fredericksburg]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Fredericksburg
n 1: a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River
2: an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the
Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the
Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee [syn: Fredericksburg,
Battle of Fredericksburg]