joseph hooker

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   United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)

   SynonymsHookerFighting Joe Hooker

   Broadergeneral

Questions about joseph hooker

What does joseph hooker mean?

joseph hooker means "United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)".

What is another word for joseph hooker?

Close synonyms include Hooker, Fighting Joe Hooker. 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 joseph hooker a common word?

joseph hooker 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.