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Definition: Dresden |
DresdenNoun1. A city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Dresden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: Dresden |
| English words defined with "Dresden": Dresden ware. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Dresden": Macaber ♦ Picture Galleries. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dresden" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (Dresden). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Located on the river Elbe, Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony, with a population of about 500,000.
A Slavic settlement on the right (northern) bank of the river was joined in 1206 by a German town on the left bank, the heart of today's Altstadt (old town). The seat from 1270 of the Wettin landgraves of Meissen and from 1485 of the dukes (from 1547 also electors) of Saxony, between 1806 and 1918 it was the capital of the kingdom of Saxony, a part from 1871 of the German Empire. The city's population quadrupled from 95,000 in 1849 to 396,000 in 1900, surpassing even its rapid growth in the first half of the 18th century.
The city has suffered repeated damage: by fire in 1491, from bombardment in 1760 and during the suppression of a constitutionalist uprising in 1849. Renowned for its architecture, and as a center for elaborate porcelain manufacture (based at nearby Meissen from 1710), the city was largely destroyed by Allied bombing in February 1945 even though the end of World War II was foreseeable. Thousands of innocents died.
In 2002, torrential rains led to the Elbe flooding to 29 feet past its 1845 record height, damaging many landmarks.
One of the major restorations in progress is that of the Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady, which is being rebuilt from the stones of the original church.
See also: Zwinger, Bombing of Dresden in World War II
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dresden."
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Movie/TV Titles | Dresden 1964 - Im Zwinger (1964) The Dresden Doll (1922) Fantasie: Dresden China (1913) | |
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 | "Fragments of a Hieroglyphical MS at Dresden," in: "Researches Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America," by Alexander von Humboldt and translated by Helen Maria Williams, 1814. Vol. II, p. 144. Library Call Number C/gLH919. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | [Joh. Aug. Wil. Hedenus] / H.F. Grünewald lith., druck v. J. Braunsdorf, Dresden. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Street scene of Dresden, Germany at night. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ruins of Wiederaufbau Neues Rathaus, the town hall in Dresden, Germany, after fire bombing during World War II. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Decomposing corpse of man with swastika arm band in Dresden, Germany, after the fire bombing during World War II]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | See Strasse in the clean and modern city of Dresden, Germany. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Frauenkirche, Dresden, with lofty lantern (310 ft.) N.E. across sq. by Luther Statue, Germany. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dresden. Bruhl Terrace. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | German cruiser Dresden. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dresden, German cruiser. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | For numbers and for carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden. |
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| "Dresden" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.87% of the time. "Dresden" is used about 156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 94.87% | 148 | 25,903 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.13% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 156 | N/A |
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1. Dresden, KS (city, FIPS 18600) 2. Dresden, ME 3. Dresden, NY (village, FIPS 20896) 4. Dresden, OH (village, FIPS 22610) 5. Dresden, TN (town, FIPS 21540) 6. Dresden , Germany 7. Dresden , East Germany (Former) |
Expressions using "Dresden": dresden china ♦ Dresden ware. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Dresden": dresden-based. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | Drezden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | "резденски Порцелан. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 德累斯顿. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Drážïany. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Porcelaine De Saxe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dresden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Drezda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Dresda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | " 스덴. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esdendray dresda. (various references) "резденский Фарфор. (various references) drezden. (various references) Dresde. (various references) Dresden Porseleni (dresden china). (various references) "резден. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Dresden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bresdin, Derndan, desden, Drasdo, Drazen, dressen, Driessen, Drosdik, Drosten, Drozdov, Duerden, Tresadern. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reddens. | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: denser, enders, redden, rended, resend, sended, sender. | |
-2 letters: deeds, deers, denes, dense, dreed, drees, ended, ender, ernes, needs, nerds, redds, reded, redes, reeds, rends, seder, sered, sneer. | |
-3 letters: deed, deer, dees, dene, dens, dere, dree, ends, erne, erns, need, nerd, redd, rede, reds, reed, rees, rend, seed, seen, seer, send, sene, sere, sned. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: denuders, endorsed, sundered. | |
+2 letters: adherends, darnedest, deadeners, defenders, demanders, dendrites, descender, discerned, durnedest, endoderms, redemands, rescinded, resounded, responded, serenaded, slandered, underdoes, underside, underused, undesired, undressed. | |
+3 letters: bestridden, considered, deerhounds, descenders, disendower, eiderdowns, endodermis, enshrouded, modernised, prescinded, reascended, redesigned, sideburned, sidewinder, splendider, squandered, underfeeds, undersexed, undersides, undersized, undeserved, unsoldered. | |
+4 letters: bandleaders, beardedness, crescendoed, crowdedness, deadpanners, decahedrons, decrescendo, disburdened, disendowers, disinterred, disoriented, dunderheads, dundrearies, epidendrums, guardedness, misrendered, predestined, recondensed, reddishness, roundedness, ruddinesses, sandpapered, sidewinders, slenderized, surrendered, suspendered, transcended, unaddressed, underbodies, underscored, underserved, undersigned, understated, unpersuaded, unredressed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 65 73 64 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. . ... -.. . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100100 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r e s d e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0065 0073 0064 0065 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38847185707180 |
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