DRESDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dresden mean? 

• DRESDEN (noun)
  The noun DRESDEN has 1 sense:

1. a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945

  Familiarity information: DRESDEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRESDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes Dresden prostate carcinoma protein 2, may play a role in the prostate.

(HMGN2P46 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Dresden prostate carcinoma protein 2 (172 aa, ~20 kDa) is encoded by the human HMGN2P46 gene.

(Dresden Prostate Carcinoma Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

She was like a bit of Dresden china, and I was continually impressed with what I may call her fragility.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was enchanted by her approbation of his taste, confessed it to be neat and simple, thought it right to encourage the manufacture of his country; and for his part, to his uncritical palate, the tea was as well flavoured from the clay of Staffordshire, as from that of Dresden or Save.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)