chickamauga

Questions about chickamauga

What does chickamauga mean?

chickamauga means "a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces".

How many syllables are in chickamauga?

chickamauga has 4 syllables and divides as chic-ka-mau-ga under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chickamauga?

Close synonyms include battle of Chickamauga. 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 chickamauga a common word?

chickamauga 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.