JENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jena mean? 

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

1. the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JENA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Battle of Jena; Jena

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 ("Jena" 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 

The work is the result of a collaboration among Naveen Bisht, a scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India; Joseph Jez, a plant biologist at Washington University; and Jonathan Gershenzon of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.

(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)