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 to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan