Associations to the word «Gettysburg»

Wiktionary

GETTYSBURG, proper noun. A borough in Pennsylvania

Dictionary definition

GETTYSBURG, noun. A small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery.
GETTYSBURG, noun. A battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union.

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