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Meaning 1
The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe.
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Standard Lemma guide
Dresden
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Meaning 2
A village in Kent County, Ontario, Canada.
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Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
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Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States, including:
A town, the county seat of Weakley County, Tennessee.
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Meaning 5
The Bombing of Dresden.
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Usage: metonymically
Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: Dresdenware, Meissenware
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noun
Meaning 7
a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945
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Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Dresden (“Dresden”) in the 1730s, from Middle High German Dresden, from a Sorbian source akin to Lower Sorbian Drježdźany, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *dręzga, of which the locative case is *dręzdzě.
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: دْرِيسْدِن (drīsdin) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Armenian: Դրեզդեն (Drezden) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Belarusian: Дрэздэн (Drezden) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Bengali: ড্রেসডেন (ḍresḍen) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Bulgarian: Дрезден (Drezden) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Chinese Mandarin: 德累斯頓 /德累斯顿 (Déléisīdùn) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Czech: Drážďany — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Danish: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Dutch: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Esperanto: Dresdeno — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Estonian: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Finnish: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- French: Dresde — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Georgian: დრეზდენი (drezdeni) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- German: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Greek: Δρέσδη (Drésdi) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Hindi: ड्रेसडेन (ḍresḍen) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Hungarian: Drezda — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Italian: Dresda — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Japanese: ドレスデン (Doresuden) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Korean: 드레스덴 (Deureseuden) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Latin: Dresda — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Latvian: Drēzdene — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Lithuanian: Dresdenas — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Marathi: ड्रेस्डेन (ḍresḍen) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Old Church Slavonic: Дрєжданꙑ (Dreždany) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Polish: Drezno — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Portuguese: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Portuguese: Dresdem — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Portuguese: Dresda — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Romanian: Dresda — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Russian: Дре́зден (Drɛ́zden) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Serbo-Croatian: Дрезден — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Serbo-Croatian: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Slovak: Drážďany — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Slovene: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Upper Sorbian: Drježdźany — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Spanish: Dresde — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Swedish: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Thai: เดรสเดิน (drèes-dəən) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Turkish: Dresden — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Ukrainian: Дрезден (Drezden) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Vietnamese: Đrét-xđen — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Yiddish: דרעזדן (drezdn) — capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
- Belarusian: дрэ́здэнскі (drézdenski) — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- Czech: drážďanský — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- French: dresdois — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- German: dresdenerisch — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- German: dresdnerisch — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- Macedonian: дрезденски (drezdenski) — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- Polish: drezdeński — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- Russian: дре́зденский (drézdenskij) — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- Slovak: drážďanský — attributive form - relating to Dresden
- Ukrainian: дре́зденський (drézdensʹkyj) — attributive form - relating to Dresden
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