harpers ferry harper's ferry • harp groat · · · Info · Definitions · Characters · · harpers ferry · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 13 · · Length 4 · · Syllables Definitions · · · (noun) a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there. Synonyms: Harpers Ferry, Harper's Ferry. · · Noun Definition 1 Characters · · space U+0020 a latin small letter a U+0061 e latin small letter e U+0065 f latin small letter f U+0066 h latin small letter h U+0068 p latin small letter p U+0070 r latin small letter r U+0072 s latin small letter s U+0073 y latin small letter y U+0079