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Austria
[ aw-stree-uh ]
noun
- a republic in central Europe. 32,381 sq. mi. (83,865 sq. km). : Vienna.
Austria
/ ˈɒstrɪə /
noun
- a republic in central Europe: ruled by the Hapsburgs from 1282 to 1918; formed a dual monarchy with Hungary in 1867 and became a republic in 1919; a member of the European Union; contains part of the Alps, the Danube basin in the east, and extensive forests. Official language: German. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: euro. Capital: Vienna. Pop: 8 221 646 (2013 est). Area: 83 849 sq km (32 374 sq miles) German nameÖsterreich
Austria
- Mountainous republic in central Europe , bordered by Germany and the former Czechoslovakia to the north, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Its capital and largest city is Vienna .
Notes
Other Words From
- Austri·an adjective noun
- anti-Austri·a adjective
- anti-Austri·an adjective noun
- pro-Austri·an adjective noun
- pseudo-Austri·an adjective noun
- trans-Austri·an adjective
- un-Austri·an adjective
Example Sentences
About 30 ski resorts in Austria, Italy and Switzerland have sent fact-finding delegations to the village.
I learned that you can’t go to Salzburg, Austria without running into something Mozart related.
MacKenzie Passegger is an American citizen living in Austria, where she is married to an Austrian and works as a social media manager.
Austria’s Wolfgang Schwartz won figure skating gold at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
Christian Rominger is a neuroscientist at the University of Graz in Austria.
His harrowing escape from Vienna when Hitler took Austria in March 1938 is dramatically chronicled in his memoirs.
The Austria-based restaurant was first noted by the scholar and monk Albuin, who was a devout follower of Charlemagne.
Austria and Germany, he tells me, were really enjoyable experiences; he was completely anonymous there, no one knew him.
So if you were an East German, you could go to Hungary and then could go across to Austria, and from Austria into West Germany.
She says that when her two sons were just boys she sent them to live with her former husband in Austria.
The emperor Nicholas of Russia declared, by ukase, his purpose to assist Austria.
Insurrectionary movements at Rome in consequence of the pope's refusal to declare war against Austria.
Austria's fall was due to the lethargy and hesitation of the courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg.
But once Austria was disposed of, Prussia and Russia met their punishment for having given her secret or open aid.
England proclaimed a rough indignation at the demand for Gibraltar, which Austria had made in behalf of Spain.
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