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Definition of Siege
1. Noun. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
Generic synonyms: Blockade, Encirclement
Specialized synonyms: Alamo, Atlanta, Battle Of Atlanta, Bataan, Corregidor, Dien Bien Phu, Lucknow, Orleans, Siege Of Orleans, Petersburg, Petersburg Campaign, Pleven, Plevna, Siege Of Syracuse, Syracuse, Siege Of Syracuse, Syracuse, Siege Of Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Siege Of Yorktown, Yorktown
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Definition of Siege
1. n. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
2. v. t. To besiege; to beset.
Definition of Siege
1. Noun. seat ¹
2. Noun. military action ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Siege
1. to attempt to capture or gain [v SIEGED, SIEGING, SIEGES]
Medical Definition of Siege
1. 1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. "Upon the very siege of justice." "A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay." (Spenser) "In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it "The siege perilous."" (Tennyson) 2. Hence, place or situation; seat. "Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever." (Painter (Palace of Pleasure)) 3. Rank; grade; station; estimation. "I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege." (Shak) 4. Passage of excrements; stool; faecal matter. "The siege of this mooncalf." (Shak) 5. The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade. 6. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession. "Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast." (Dryden) 7. The floor of a glass-furnace. 8. A workman's bench. Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations. Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified places. Origin: OE. Sege, OF. Siege, F. Siege a seat, a siege; cf. It. Seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. Assieger to besiege, It. & LL. Assediare, L. Obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. Sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Siege
Literary usage of Siege
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"But we cannot accept his statement that the siege lasted seven years; in fact he
contradicts it himself, since he places the peace in the fifth year after ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Besides the "gateway" smashed through the wall at the time of the siege, ...
PEKING, The siege in. The siege in Peking in 1900 was the outgrowth of the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"siege Artillery.— An examination of the German formations for sieges indicates
that their organization is based on the theories — aggressiveness, ..."
4. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"Hence this siege is usually called "the Campaign of the Trench. ... During the
siege the vigilance and discipline of the Muslims contrasted strangely with ..."
5. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1851)
"Ali was with Omar at the time, and. advised the instant siege of the latter ;
for such, he said, had been the intention of the prophet. ..."
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