Napoleonic

[ nuh-poh-lee-on-ik ]

adjective

1. pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty:

   the Napoleonic era; a Napoleonic attitude toward one's employees.

Napoleonic

/ nəˌpəʊlɪˈɒnɪk /

adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of Napoleon I or his era

Other Words From

• Na·pole·oni·cal·ly adverb
• post-Na·pole·onic adjective
• pre-Na·pole·onic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Napoleonic¹

First recorded in 1860–65; Napoleon + -ic

Example Sentences

These incessant actions forced the ill-prepared Napoleonic forces to rely on their paltry and dangerously exposed supply lines.

From Realm of History

Napoleonic land warfare, like the wars of Greece and Rome, moved at walking pace, from the raising of forces to the day of battle.

From The Daily Beast

He went to the British Museum every day and he read books about the Napoleonic Wars.

From The Daily Beast

Germans who came of age in the early 1800s, he argued, were shaped by the Napoleonic wars.

From The Daily Beast

The years that followed the close of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 were in many senses years of unexampled misery.

From Project Gutenberg

He remained an austere republican, refusing to take part in the Napoleonic rgime.

From Project Gutenberg

Surely the Cupid bow of the thin Napoleonic lips was there, the distant yet piercing look.

From Project Gutenberg

That he did not love Elise, she knew well enough: he had been coldblooded; in this, at least, he was Napoleonic.

From Project Gutenberg

This condition of affairs lasted till the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

From Project Gutenberg