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Meaning of ATLANTA

Pronunciation:  at'lantu

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying Atlanta and burned the city; 1864
  2. [n]  state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War
 
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 Synonyms: battle of Atlanta, capital of Georgia
 
 See Also: American Civil War, Atlanta, Atlanta, battle of Atlanta, beleaguering, besieging, capital of Georgia, Empire State of the South, GA, Georgia, military blockade, Peach State, siege, state capital, War between the States

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\At*lan"ta\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?.] (Zo["o]l.)
A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at
the surface in mid ocean. See {Heteropod}.
 
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