Beneš

American  

[be-nesh] / ˈbɛ nɛʃ /

noun

1. Eduard 1884–1948, Czech patriot and statesman: president of Czechoslovakia 1935–38 and 1945–48.

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Beneš British  

/ ˈbɛnɛʃ /

noun

1. Eduard (ˈeːduart). 1884–1948, Czech statesman; president of Czechoslovakia (1935–38; 1946–48) and of its government in exile (1939–45)

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Example Sentences

From the high-altitude perspective of postwar geopolitics, President Edvard Beneš dubbed it Czechoslovakia’s “final solution of the German question.”

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

They were Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, a philosophy professor, and his colleague and ultimate successor, Eduard Beneš, who had been one of his students at Prague.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up to May, 1917, it was published under the editorship of Professor Denis, and since then its editor has been Dr. Beneš.

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Nosek, Vladimír

On October 14, Dr. E. Beneš addressed the following letter to all the Allied Governments:

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Nosek, Vladimír

A similar fate also met the wife of another Czech leader, Dr. Beneš, who escaped abroad in the autumn of 1915 and became secretary general of the Czecho-Slovak National Council.

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Nosek, Vladimír