buena vista

1. 1.

   a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico

   Broaderpitched battle

   Part ofMexican War

   Mexico

Questions about buena vista

What does buena vista mean?

buena vista means "a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico".

Is buena vista a common word?

buena vista 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.