Blenheim

[ blen-uhm ]

noun

village in S Germany, on the Danube: famous victory of the Duke of Marlborough over the French, 1704.

German Blindheim.

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How to use Blenheim in a sentence

Dave Matthews owns Blenheim Vineyards in Virginia and produces an array of respected table wines.
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Before buying the priory, the couple had rented a cottage nearby from the Duke of Marlborough on his Blenheim Palace estate.
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In 1749 the library was removed to Blenheim, where it remained until 1881.
English Book Collectors | William Younger Fletcher
Cutts made his attack on Blenheim with all the fury which earned for him the nickname of the Salamander.
Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George
Mr. Price acknowledges himself an admirer of the water-scene at Blenheim.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, | Samuel Felton

But Blenheim was within the power of a magnanimous people, and they caused the erection of it at the public cost to be suspended!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852 | Various
Positively, the Garden of Eden cannot have been more beautiful than this private garden of Blenheim.
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British Dictionary definitions for Blenheim (1 of 2)

Blenheim¹

/ (ˈblɛnɪm) /

noun

a village in SW Germany, site of a victory of Anglo-Austrian forces under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy that saved Vienna from the French and Bavarians (1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession: Modern name: Blindheim

British Dictionary definitions for Blenheim (2 of 2)

Blenheim²

/ (ˈblɛnɪm) /

noun

a type of King Charles spaniel having red-and-white markings
Also called: Blenheim orange
- a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
- the fruit of this tree

Origin of Blenheim

C19: named after Blenheim Palace

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