Smetana

American  

[sme-tah-nah, smet-n-uh] / ˈsmɛ tɑ nɑ, ˈsmɛt n ə /

noun

1. Bedřich 1824–84, Czech composer.

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Smetana British  

/ ˈsmɛtana /

noun

1. Bedřich (ˈbɛdrʒix). 1824–84, Czech composer, founder of his country's national school of music. His works include My Fatherland (1874–79), a cycle of six symphonic poems, and the opera The Bartered Bride (1866)

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Example Sentences

"Essentially we reduced the size of the system that you need to solve by about 1000 times," Smetana says.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

That Smetana was losing his hearing as he composed the piece seems like more than arcane biographical trivia; as the piece unfolds, one suspects it accounts for the music’s indulgence in meticulous depiction.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022

Mikhailo Smetana, a graphic designer, packed his and his wife's things after the Russian invasion on Feb. 24 but never felt it was the right time to leave.

From Reuters • Apr. 7, 2022

Two days earlier, Ms. Smetana and six of her colleagues from a local orphanage were driving to a small village where the children had been evacuated at the start of the war.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022

There are additional illustrations, not listed above, of Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Dvorak, and Grieg.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)