atlanta Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    capital of Georgia.
  2. noun a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864
    battle of Atlanta.

WordNet

At*lan"ta noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. .
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

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