battle of issus

1. 1.

   a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III

   SynonymsIssus

   Broaderpitched battle

   Asia Minor

Questions about battle of issus

What does battle of issus mean?

battle of issus means "a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III".

What is another word for battle of issus?

Close synonyms include Issus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is battle of issus a common word?

battle of issus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.