AUSTERLITZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Austerlitz mean? 

• AUSTERLITZ (noun)
  The noun AUSTERLITZ has 2 senses:

1. a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805

2. 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

  Familiarity information: AUSTERLITZ used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTERLITZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Domain member region:

Austerlitz; battle of Austerlitz (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)

Holonyms ("Austerlitz" is a part of...):

Czech Republic (a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from Slovakia in 1993)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Austerlitz; battle of Austerlitz

Instance hypernyms:

pitched battle (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)

Domain region:

Austerlitz (a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805)

Holonyms ("Austerlitz" is a part of...):

Napoleonic Wars (a series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times; 1799-1815)

 Context examples 

Yesterday a lady, who has been known as Mme. Henri Fournaye, occupying a small villa in the Rue Austerlitz, was reported to the authorities by her servants as being insane.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)