Austerlitz

[aw-ster-lits; Ger. ous-tuhr-lits]

Aus·ter·litz

[aw-ster-lits; Ger. ous-tuhr-lits]
noun
a town in S Moravia, in the SE Czech Republic: Russian and Austrian armies defeated by Napoleon I 1805.
Czech, Slavkov.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Austerlitz (ˈɔːstəlɪts)
 
n
Czech name: Slavkov a town in the Czech Republic, in Moravia: site of Napoleon's victory over the Russian and Austrian armies in 1805. Pop: 1795 (2007 est)

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