Associations to the word «Chancellorsville»

Dictionary definition

CHANCELLORSVILLE, noun. A village in northeastern Virginia.
CHANCELLORSVILLE, noun. A major battle in the American Civil War (1863); the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats