battle of plataea

1. 1.

   a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC

   SynonymsPlataea

   Broaderpitched battle

   Boeotia

Questions about battle of plataea

What does battle of plataea mean?

battle of plataea means "a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC".

What is another word for battle of plataea?

Close synonyms include Plataea. 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 plataea a common word?

battle of plataea 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.