austerlitz

/ˈɔstɚlɪts/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English

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Former name of Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic. The site of Napoleon's victory over the combined Russian and Austrian armies in 1805.

"That dinner at the King’s Arms with his friends had been Henchard’s Austerlitz: he had had his successes since, but his course had not been upward."

Borrowed from German Austerlitz, perhaps from an earlier Neusedlitz, borrowed from an old Czech name Novosedlice.

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How do you pronounce austerlitz?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɔstɚlɪts/.

What does austerlitz mean?

Former name of Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic. The site of Napoleon's victory over the combined Russian and Austrian armies in 1805.

Where does austerlitz come from?

It is traced to German.

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