VIENNA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vienna mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIENNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Austrian capital; capital of Austria; Vienna

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Domain member region:

schnitzel; Wiener schnitzel (deep-fried breaded veal cutlets)

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

Austria; Oesterreich; Republic of Austria (a mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century)

 Context examples 

Scientists meeting Tuesday in Vienna said if no action is taken, the problem will increase by 65 percent by 2050.

(Experts Warn Prescription, Over-the-Counter Drugs Polluting World's Rivers, VOA)

—by re-reading your masterly address at Vienna.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The research was presented at this week at UEG Week in Vienna, Austria, the largest gastroenterology meeting in Europe.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Studying life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Japan's island of Okinawa, microbiologists led by a team from the University of Vienna found that certain microbes thrive in conditions similar to those on Enceladus.

(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)

The team of researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, also plans to look at what happens to heat flow in bamboo when its surface is burned and forms char.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

Therefore the next time the old gentleman found him getting restless and moody and ordered him off, he went to Vienna, where he had musical friends, and fell to work with the firm determination to distinguish himself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Medical University of Vienna have used a novel approach to identify which specific allergens can predict the transition from IgE sensitisation in early childhood to the development of respiratory allergy later in life.

(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Kipchoge ran in Vienna, Austria.

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)