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Sherman

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Sherman

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n
American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793)
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n
United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)
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n
a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border
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n
a peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,036 feet high)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Sherman
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n American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793)

Synonyms:
Roger Sherman
Example of:
American Revolutionary leader
a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States
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n United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)

Synonyms:
William Tecumseh Sherman
Example of:
full general, general
a general officer of the highest rank
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n a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border

Example of:
town
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
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n a peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,036 feet high)

Synonyms:
Mount Sherman
Example of:
mountain peak
the summit of a mountain
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