Yorktown

American  

[yawrk-toun] / ˈyɔrkˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a village in SE Virginia: surrender (October 19, 1781) of Cornwallis to Washington in the American Revolution.

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Yorktown British  

/ ˈjɔːkˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a village in SE Virginia: scene of the surrender (1781) of the British under Cornwallis to the Americans under Washington at the end of the War of American Independence

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Example Sentences

Instead she’s gone, and this weekend her family came with moist eyes and broken hearts to her funeral at the First Presbyterian Church in her hometown of Yorktown, N.Y.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Khatiri is a vice president and senior fellow at Yorktown Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal

Washington allegedly carried them while at Valley Forge and Yorktown, site of the 1781 British surrender that cleared the way for the creation of a new nation.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Thomas J. Watson Research Center sits on a sprawling campus in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., some 40 miles from Manhattan.

From Barron's

About the author: Joseph Epstein is director of the Turan Research Center and senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute.

From Barron's