Smetana

American

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

noun

Bedřich 1824–84, Czech composer.

Smetana British

/ ˈsmɛtana /

noun

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)

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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

At City Hospital No. 3, Anna Smetana sat up in a cot, sobbing.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022

Smetana, Grieg, Tschaikovsky were the first to follow this path, in which the majority of the moderns, including Franck and Debussy, have followed them.

From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Frederick Herman Martens

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