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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley