vicksburg

1. 1.

   a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves

   Broadertown

   Part ofMississippi
2. 2.

   a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered

   Synonymssiege of Vicksburg

   Broadersiege

   Part ofAmerican Civil War

   Mississippi

Other forms of vicksburg

plural

vicksburgs·

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 vicksburg

What does vicksburg mean?

vicksburg means "a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vicksburg?

vicksburg has 2 syllables: vicks-burg. The stress falls on "vicks". In IPA it is /ˈvɪksbɚɡ/.

What is another word for vicksburg?

Close synonyms include siege of Vicksburg. 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 vicksburg a common word?

vicksburg 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.