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Dresden

dres·den

UK/ˈdɹɛzdən/ US/ˈdrɛzdɪn/ uncommon

noun

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a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945

Origin

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.

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