Noun
- 1. Yorktown
- usage: a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution
- 2. Yorktown, siege of Yorktown
- usage: in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution
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