Dresden

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Dresden (Dresden) in the 1730s,[1] 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.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Dresden

  1. The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe.
  2. A village in Kent County, Ontario, Canada.
  3. A town, the county seat of Weakley County, Tennessee, United States.
  4. (history, metonymically) The Bombing of Dresden.
    • 2001 July 23, Robin Neillands, The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 358:
      The actual total hardly matters: if Dresden was indeed a war crime, just one death would make it so.
    • 2017, John Theobald, A Kingdom Falls, Head of Zeus Ltd., →ISBN, page 314:
      ‘Father, you saw the papers, when Dresden happened. You see the papers today. People are seeing the cost of this, truly. Now that we know the consequences, countries will not use it.’

Translations

Noun

Dresden (uncountable)

  1. A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Dresden”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

German

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʁeːsdn̩/
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  • Hyphenation: Dres‧den

Proper noun

Dresden n (proper noun, genitive Dresdens or (optionally with an article) Dresden)

  1. Dresden (an independent city, the capital city of Saxony)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Dresden f

  1. Alternative spelling of Dresdem