Associations to the word «Austerlitz»

Dictionary definition

AUSTERLITZ, noun. A town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805.
AUSTERLITZ, noun. 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope