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alamo
1[ al-uh-moh, ah-luh- ]
noun
- a poplar.
Alamo
2[ al-uh-moh ]
noun
- a Franciscan mission in San Antonio, Texas, besieged by Mexicans on February 23, 1836, during the Texan war for independence and taken on March 6, 1836, with its entire garrison killed.
Alamo
/ ˈæləˌməʊ /
noun
- the Alamothe Alamo a mission in San Antonio, Texas, the site of a siege and massacre in 1836 by Mexican forces under Santa Anna of a handful of American rebels fighting for Texan independence from Mexico
Alamo
- A fort, once a chapel, in San Antonio, Texas , where a group of Americans made a heroic stand against a much larger Mexican force in 1836, during the war for Texan independence from Mexico . The Mexicans, under General Santa Anna, besieged the Alamo and eventually killed all of the defenders, including Davy Crockett .
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Example Sentences
According to League, Alamo Drafthouse was actively working with Sony on Monday on the possibility of screening The Interview.
For them, this is a battle every bit as symbolic and important as the Alamo once was to Americans.
As a boy in Alamo, a tiny Mormon ranching community in Lincoln County 90 miles north of Las Vegas, Lamb was one of 11 children.
This show started as a one-off joke at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2007 after viewing this.
According to Watts, the moms staged a counter event, one mile away from the Alamo protest.
Not being sufficiently numerous to hold out the town as well as the Alamo, they retreated into the latter.
Well, we couldn't even think Bunker Hill but what she'd pipe up about the Alamo.
In 1785 the troops were obliged to retire into the Alamo at San Antonio, in order to be secured from their raids.
On the approach of Santa Anna, they took refuge in the Alamo, about half a mile to the north of the town.
Her route took her through Alamo plaza again, and the streets which still bore witness to the presence of the Carnival.
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