Austerlitz
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German Austerlitz, perhaps from an earlier Neusedlitz, borrowed from an old Czech name Novosedlice.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editAusterlitz
- Former name of Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic. The site of Napoleon's victory over the combined Russian and Austrian armies in 1805.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
- That dinner at the King’s Arms with his friends had been Henchard’s Austerlitz: he had had his successes since, but his course had not been upward.
Translations
editformer name of Slavkov u Brna
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Dutch
editEtymology
editFirst attested as Austerlitz in 1806. Borrowed from German Austerlitz, the German name of Slavkov u Brna. Louis Napoleon gave the village this name after Napoleon won a victory there against Austria and Russia.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editAusterlitz n
- A village in Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
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editGerman
editEtymology
editPerhaps from an earlier Neusedlitz, borrowed from an old Czech name Novosedlice.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editAusterlitz n (proper noun, strong, genitive Austerlitz')
- Former name of Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic. The site of Napoleon's victory over the combined Russian and Austrian armies in 1805.
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