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Smetana

American  
[sme-tah-nah, smet-n-uh] / ˈsmɛ tɑ nɑ, ˈsmɛt n ə /

noun

  1. Bedřich 1824–84, Czech composer.


Smetana British  
/ ˈsmɛtana /

noun

  1. Bedřich (ˈbɛdrʒix). 1824–84, Czech composer, founder of his country's national school of music. His works include My Fatherland (1874–79), a cycle of six symphonic poems, and the opera The Bartered Bride (1866)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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To overcome this barrier, Smetana teamed up with computational seismologists Rhys Hawkins and Jeannot Trampert from Utrecht University, along with Matthias Schlottbom and Muhammad Hamza Khalid from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

This skill was on full display in the Smetana.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2022

Mikhailo Smetana, a graphic designer, packed his and his wife's things after the Russian invasion on Feb. 24 but never felt it was the right time to leave.

From Reuters • Apr. 7, 2022

Two days earlier, Ms. Smetana and six of her colleagues from a local orphanage were driving to a small village where the children had been evacuated at the start of the war.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022

Farewell! arrange everything; I am to bind up my eyes at night, and to spare them as much as possible; otherwise, says Smetana, I shall write little more music in the time to come.

From Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 by Nohl, Ludwig

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