harpers ferry

1. 1.

   a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there

   SynonymsHarper's Ferry

   Broadertown

   Part ofWest Virginia

Questions about harpers ferry

What does harpers ferry mean?

harpers ferry means "a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there".

What is another word for harpers ferry?

Close synonyms include Harper's Ferry. 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 harpers ferry a common word?

harpers ferry 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.