Dresden

[ drez-duhn; German dreys-duhn ]

noun

1. the capital of Saxony in E Germany, on the Elbe River.

Dresden

/ ˈdrɛzdən /

noun

1. an industrial city in SE Germany, the capital of Saxony on the River Elbe: it was severely damaged in the Seven Years' War (1760); the baroque city was almost totally destroyed in World War II by Allied bombing (1945). Pop: 483 632 (2003 est)

adjective

1. relating to, designating, or made of Dresden china

Dresden

1. City in eastern Germany on the Elbe River .

Notes

Dresden was a leading center of German music, art, and architecture for three centuries, until it was severely damaged by Allied bombing in World War II .

Example Sentences

Dresden was astonishing, but experiences can be astonishing without changing you.

From Time

One, with the title “Magic Fingers,” is about a character who experienced the Dresden bombing, who visits a friend named Bernard O’Hare during the World’s Fair and is fixated on the mechanical beds named in the title.

From Time

The importance of Dresden in my life has been considerably exaggerated because my book about it became a bestseller.

From Time

That gives you some idea of how densely crowded the 5 billion proteins in a typical cell are, said Anthony Hyman, a British cell biologist and a director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.

From Quanta Magazine

My colleagues Stefan Lämmer and Dirk Helbing did it for Dresden.

From Quanta Magazine

In Dresden, Germany, anti-Islam rallies each week draw thousands of demonstrators.

From The Daily Beast

The Stollen was paraded through the city of Dresden, and later an appointed “Stollen girl” cut the cake.

From The Daily Beast

The tradition of baking of Stollen is probably the strongest in Dresden, Germany.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

Vladimir Putin famously ran agents for the KGB from 1985 to 1990 out of Dresden, which was then in communist East Germany.

From The Daily Beast

A serious insurrection occurred at Dresden, in Saxony, but was in a few days put down.

From Project Gutenberg

In the great battle round Dresden the Marshal's twenty thousand raw recruits played their part nobly.

From Project Gutenberg

I must confess I am only staying here in order to put off my arrival in Dresden and the society of the Jurgensons.

From Project Gutenberg

Breakfasted on the banks of the Elbe (omelette aux confitures) and returned to Dresden by boat.

From Project Gutenberg

Leaving Teplitz on the morning of August 26, he arrived in the evening of the same day in Dresden in good health and good humour.

From Project Gutenberg