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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of southeast Czech Republic. Nearby, on December 2, 1805, Napoleon decisively defeated the Russian and Austrian armies of Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian and Austrian armies of Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II
- noun a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805
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Examples
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Austria who eyed the battle of Austerlitz from the heights whilst Buonaparte was active in the thickest of the fight
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Our eyes fall on the name Austerlitz down in the mosaic of the crypt.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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Have you read W G Sebald's novel Austerlitz, which is about a character who, having arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport and grown up here, rediscovers his Czech roots?
Sir Nicholas Winton: ordinary man, extraordinary story Hels 2009
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That night he issued a ringing address: recalling Austerlitz, he summoned the soldiers to behave so that future generations would say of each, "He was in that great battle under the walls of Moscow."
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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Astaire and Rogers came to movies from vaudeville and Broadway, where they had to Americanize their names imagine a dance team called Austerlitz and McMath!
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Sebald ' s mesmerizing blend of fiction, encyclopedic detail and travelogue in " Austerlitz " (2001) and " The Emigrants " (1993) — both grounded in the experiences of Jewish children in the Holocaust — Ms. Franklin finds a painstaking strategy for restoring people and places to life.
Trying to Show the Unknowable Eric J. Sundquist 2010
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I can easily carry it anywhere for literary solace. 2 "Austerlitz" by W.G. Sebald.
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The results -- and the new one, "Austerlitz," is one of his best -- are both documentary and dreamlike.
The Art Of Autumn 2007
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Steven LevyThe Big One Not Over YetIn "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stereotypes.
Periscope 2007
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In "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stale cliche.
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