Napoleonic

[ nuh-poh-lee-on-ik ]

/ nəˌpoʊ liˈɒn ɪk /

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adjective

pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty: the Napoleonic era; a Napoleonic attitude toward one's employees.

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Origin of Napoleonic

First recorded in 1860–65; Napoleon + -ic

OTHER WORDS FROM Napoleonic

Na·po·le·on·i·cal·ly, adverbpost-Na·po·le·on·ic, adjectivepre-Na·po·le·on·ic, adjective

Words nearby Napoleonic

Naples yellow, Napo, napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I, Napoleonic, Napoleonic Code, Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon II, Napoleon III, Napoli

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How to use Napoleonic in a sentence

These incessant actions forced the ill-prepared Napoleonic forces to rely on their paltry and dangerously exposed supply lines.
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Napoleonic land warfare, like the wars of Greece and Rome, moved at walking pace, from the raising of forces to the day of battle.
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He went to the British Museum every day and he read books about the Napoleonic Wars.
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Germans who came of age in the early 1800s, he argued, were shaped by the Napoleonic wars.
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The years that followed the close of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 were in many senses years of unexampled misery.
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He remained an austere republican, refusing to take part in the Napoleonic rgime.
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Surely the Cupid bow of the thin Napoleonic lips was there, the distant yet piercing look.
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That he did not love Elise, she knew well enough: he had been coldblooded; in this, at least, he was Napoleonic.
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This condition of affairs lasted till the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Napoleonic

Napoleonic

/ (nəˌpəʊlɪˈɒnɪk) /

adjective

relating to or characteristic of Napoleon I or his era

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