chattanooga

1. 1.

   a city in eastern Tennessee

   Broadercity

   Part ofTennessee
2. 2.

   in the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg

   Synonymsbattle of Chattanooga

   Broaderpitched battle

   Part ofAmerican Civil War

   Tennessee

Other forms of chattanooga

plural

chattanoogas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chattanooga

What does chattanooga mean?

chattanooga means "a city in eastern Tennessee". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chattanooga?

chattanooga has 4 syllables: chat-ta-noo-ga. The stress falls on "noo". In IPA it is /ˌtʃætəˈnuɡə/.

What is another word for chattanooga?

Close synonyms include battle of Chattanooga. 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 chattanooga a common word?

chattanooga is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.