Definition of Lucknow
                                                                                                    
                                                                            (noun) 
                                                                                                                                                         a 
city in 
northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian Mutiny its British residents were 
besieged by Indian insurgents
                                                                        
 
                                                                    
                                                                                                                 the British residents of Lucknow were 
besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857)