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say it: SHAHY-loh
shiloh is a noun meaning "the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory". It is pronounced /ˈʃaɪloʊ/ — SHAHY-loh. It carries one recorded sense.
the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory
Tennessee
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shiloh come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.