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Austerlitz

aus·ter·litz

UK/ˈɔːstəlɪts/ US/ˈaʊstəlɪts/ uncommon

noun

1.

a town in Czech Republic; site of the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805

2.

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

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Origin

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

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