austerlitz

1. 1.

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

   Broadertown

   Part ofCzech Republic
2. 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

   Synonymsbattle of Austerlitz

   Broaderpitched battle

   Part ofNapoleonic Wars

   Austerlitz

Other forms of austerlitz

plural

austerlitzes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about austerlitz

What does austerlitz mean?

austerlitz means "a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in austerlitz?

austerlitz has 3 syllables: au-ster-litz. The stress falls on "au".

What is another word for austerlitz?

Close synonyms include battle of Austerlitz. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is austerlitz a common word?

austerlitz is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.