BLENHEIM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Blenheim mean? 

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

1. the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLENHEIM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain region:

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)

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

War of the Spanish Succession (a general war in Europe (1701-1714) that broke out when Louis XIV installed his grandson on the throne of Spain; England and Holland hoped to limit Louis' power)

 Context examples 

The ears are long with abundant feathering, and it has a silky coat, sometimes with a slight waviness that comes in ruby, black and tan, tri-color and blenheim (chestnut on a pearly-white background).

(Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

The soft coat is well feathered and comes in four colors varieties: King Charles (black and tan), Ruby (solid red, sometimes with a few white hairs or small white patch on the chest), Blenheim (white with red markings, often with a red thumb print centered on the top of the head), and Prince Charles (tri-color: white with black and tan markings).

(English Toy Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither lay; Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, Birmingham, etc. are sufficiently known.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)