Metternich

American  

[met-uhr-nikh, met-er-nik] / ˈmɛt ər nɪx, ˈmɛt ər nɪk /

noun

1. Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von 1773–1859, Austrian statesman and diplomat.

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Metternich British  

/ ˈmɛtərnɪç /

noun

1. Klemens (ˈkleːməns). 1773–1859, Austrian statesman. He became foreign minister (1809) and made a significant contribution to the Congress of Vienna (1815). From 1821 to 1848 he was both foreign minister and chancellor of Austria and is noted for his defence of autocracy in Europe

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Other Word Forms

• Metternichian
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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Metternich

That’s the stuff of history: like Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt at Yalta, or Metternich, Talleyrand, and Tsar Alexander at the Congress of Vienna.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, channeling Metternich, identified in 2003 is the old Central Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Kaunitz’s efforts to shape a favorable balance guided Prince Metternich, Austria’s foreign minister and later its chancellor, when France again became Austria’s foe after the French Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Kissinger wants to be the new Metternich, who molds a new European order through the restoration of the old order’s principles.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2022

He had been a contem-porary of Metternich and was an old man with white hair and mustache and beautiful manners.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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