Prague

[prahg]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of the Czech Republic, in the western central part, on the Vltava: formerly capital of Czechoslovakia.

Prague

/ prɑːɡ /

noun

1. Czech name: Praha. the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, on the Vltava River: a rich commercial centre during the Middle Ages; site of Charles University (1348) and a technical university (1707); scene of defenestrations (1419 and 1618) that contributed to the outbreak of the Hussite Wars and the Thirty Years' War respectively. Pop: 1 164 000 (2005 est)

Prague

1. Capital of The Czech Republic, situated on both banks of the Vltava River; the republic's largest city, as well as its most important industrial city; a leading European industrial and commercial center.

In 1968, Prague was the center of Czech resistance to invasion by the Soviet Union.

From the fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire resided at Prague as well as at Vienna.

Example Sentences

She and her husband always lodged with her in-laws in New Prague, Minn., on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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She was born in Prague in 1930 and at the age of nine was told she had to move to England on her own following the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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On November 17, 1989, communist police brutally crushed a peaceful student march in the centre of Prague, sparking an uprising that toppled the Moscow-steered regime after four decades.

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Inspired by Prague’s underground rave culture, the record itself is centered around life’s purest experiences.

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Sharp presented the work at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Prague this past July.

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