Radetzky

American  

[rah-dets-kee] / rɑˈdɛts ki /

noun

1. Count Joseph 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.

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Radetzky British  

/ raˈdɛtski /

noun

1. Count Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf). 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal: served in the war against Sardinia (1848–9), winning brilliant victories at Custozza (1848) and Novara (1849): governor of Lombardy-Venetia in N Italy (1849-57)

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Example Sentences

In “Radetzky March” Joseph Roth uses the ascent and decline of the Trotta family as a kind of lineal metonym for the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, though the novel is as much about generational dynamics as it is about history and historiography.

From The Wall Street Journal

Surveying the blighted world around us, however, it seems to me there are worse places to take refuge in than a time when, as Roth put it in “The Radetzky March,” “it was not yet a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died.”

From Washington Post

Dr. Jenny Radetzky, a developmental behavioral pediatrician and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, told lawmakers in March that most web platforms are designed by adults untrained in the ways that children experience the digital world.

From Los Angeles Times

Joseph Roth’s “The Radetzky March,” for the second time.

From New York Times

The Vienna Philharmonic always plays the Radetzky March at its annual New Year’s Day concert, which this month was broadcast to 92 countries.

From Washington Post