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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution;

2. in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution;
[syn: Yorktown, siege of Yorktown]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Yorktown
    n 1: a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of
         Newport News; site of the last battle of the American
         Revolution
    2: in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a
       siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the
       surrender ended the American Revolution [syn: Yorktown,
       siege of Yorktown]