plataea

Noun plataea has 2 senses

• plataea(n = noun.location) - a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC;
is a kind of town
is a part of boeotia

• plataea(n = noun.act) battle of plataea - a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC;
is a kind of pitched battle