Dresden

Dresden

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dresden (“Dresden”), from Lower Sorbian drezga (“forest”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɛzdən/

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Proper noun

Dresden

1. The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe. [1735[1]]
2. A village in Kent County, Ontario, Canada.
3. A town, the county seat of Weakley County, Tennessee, United States.
4. (historical, metonymically) The Bombing of Dresden.
   • 2001 July 23, Neillands, Robin, 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, Theobald, John, 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

capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony

Arabic: دْرِيسْدِن‎ f (drīsdin) Armenian: Դրեզդեն (hy) (Drezden) Belarusian: Дрэздэн m (Drezden) Bulgarian: Дрезден m (Drezden) Chinese: Mandarin: 德累斯頓／德累斯顿 (zh) (Déléisīdùn) Czech: Drážďany (cs) pl Danish: Dresden Dutch: Dresden n Esperanto: Dresdeno (eo) Estonian: Dresden (et) Finnish: Dresden (fi) French: Dresde (fr) f Georgian: დრეზდენი (drezdeni) German: Dresden (de) n Greek: Δρέσδη (el) (Drésdi) Hindi: ड्रेसडेन m (ḍresḍen) Hungarian: Drezda (hu) Italian: Dresda (it) f Japanese: ドレスデン (Doresuden) Korean: 드레스덴 (Deureseuden) Latin: Dresda (la) f Latvian: Drēzdene (lv) Lithuanian: Dresdenas m Marathi: ड्रेस्डेन n (ḍresḍen) Norwegian: Bokmål: Dresden n Nynorsk: Dresden n Polish: Drezno (pl) n Portuguese: Dresden f, Dresdem f, Dresda f Romanian: Dresda f Russian: Дре́зден (ru) m (Drɛ́zden) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Дрезден m Roman: Dresden (sh) m Slovak: Drážďany pl Slovene: Dresden m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany pl Upper Sorbian: Drježdźany (hsb) pl Spanish: Dresde (es) f Swedish: Dresden (sv) Turkish: Dresden Ukrainian: Дрезден m (Drezden) Yiddish: דרעזדן‎ n (drezdn)

Noun

Dresden (uncountable)

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

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “Dresden”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• reddens

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʁeːsdn̩/

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Proper noun

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

1. Dresden (the capital city of Saxony)

Derived terms

• Dresdner

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Dresden f

1. Alternative spelling of Dresdem