Prague

[ prahg ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of the Czech Republic, in the western central part, on the Vltava: formerly capital of Czechoslovakia.

Prague

/ prɑːɡ /

noun

1. the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, on the Vltava River: a rich commercial centre during the Middle Ages; site of Charles University (1348) and a technical university (1707); scene of defenestrations (1419 and 1618) that contributed to the outbreak of the Hussite Wars and the Thirty Years' War respectively. Pop: 1 164 000 (2005 est) Czech namePraha

Prague

1. Capital of The Czech Republic , situated on both banks of the Vltava River; the republic's largest city, as well as its most important industrial city; a leading European industrial and commercial center.

Notes

In 1968, Prague was the center of Czech resistance to invasion by the Soviet Union .

From the fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire resided at Prague as well as at Vienna .

Example Sentences

In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.

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Havel, back in Prague on the night the East Germans left, was walking home through the Malá Strana district.

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There was Petr Miller, a forgeman from the Prague ČKD plant.

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They would travel by train, and the trains would pass through Dresden, the East German city closest to Prague.

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It had opened in Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Prague, London.

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The Ordish bridge built at Prague in 1868 had oblique chains supporting the stiffening girders at intermediate points of the span.

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In the German War he took part in the storming of Prague in 1742, and was made a brigadier.

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But Slavik before leaving Prague proved at a farewell concert that there was at least one who could play the mad stuff.

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You see, Herr Renwick, in ten minutes all the roads into Prague will be closed to them.

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To the remarks about coming to Prague he rejoined regretfully: 'I can quite see that there is nothing for you to do here.

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