Lucknow

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lucknow \Lucknow\ n.
     1. A city in India, the site of the Indian Mutiny (1857) when
        the British were beseiged.
        [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Lucknow
       n 1: a city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian
            Mutiny its British residents were beseiged by Indian
            insurgents
       2: the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian
          insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857)