dresden
/ˈdɹɛzdən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe.
name
A village in Kent County, Ontario, Canada.
name
A number of places in the United States, including:
name
A number of places in the United States, including:
name
The Bombing of Dresden.
noun
A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
Etymology
Borrowed from German Dresden (“Dresden”) in the 1730s, from Middle High German Dresden, from a Sorbian source akin to Lower Sorbian Drježdźany, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *dręzga, of which the locative case is *dręzdzě.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Dresden, *dręzga