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LITTLE BIGHORN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
Synonyms:
Battle of Little Bighorn; Battle of the Little Bighorn; Custer's Last Stand; Little Bighorn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
butchery; carnage; mass murder; massacre; slaughter (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
Domain region:
Mont.; Montana; MT; Treasure State (a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
Synonyms:
Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River; Little Horn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Little Bighorn" is a part of...):
Mont.; Montana; MT; Treasure State (a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border)
Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)
