BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battle of Austerlitz mean? 

• BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ (noun)
  The noun BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ has 1 sense:

1. 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: BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("battle of 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)