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dresden
/ˈdɹɛzdɪn/
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What does dresden mean?
noun
- A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.
proper noun
- The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe.
- A village in Kent County, Ontario, Canada.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
- A town, the county seat of Weakley County, Tennessee.
- The Bombing of Dresden.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdɹɛzdɪn/
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Complications in the opera at Dresden had given her an unhoped-for opportunity to go on in a big part.
All round the outside of the amphitheatre were shops, filled with Dresden china, Japan, etc. and all the shop-keepers in mask.
More book examples (3)
His design was to push on to Dresden, and by the conquest of the whole country, to prescribe laws to the Elector.
Their ill-success at Dresden is to be ascribed not to this general plan but to their faulty dispositions both strategic and tactical.
Quite within recent times this question also has been settled once and for all by the experiments of A. Lungwitz, of Dresden.