alamo | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun alamo has 1 sense

Alamo - the mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
--₁ is a kind of siege, besieging, beleaguering, military blockade; slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery

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