Dresden

Borrowed from German Dresden (“Dresden”), from Lower Sorbian drezga (“forest”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɛzdən/

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Dresden

1. The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe. [1735[1]]
2. A village in Kent County, Ontario, Canada.
3. A town, the county seat of Weakley County, Tennessee, United States.
4. (history, metonymically) The Bombing of Dresden.
   • 2001 July 23, Neillands, Robin, The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany‎, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 358:

     The actual total hardly matters: if Dresden was indeed a war crime, just one death would make it so.

   • 2017, Theobald, John, A Kingdom Falls‎, Head of Zeus Ltd., →ISBN, page 314:

     ‘Father, you saw the papers, when Dresden happened. You see the papers today. People are seeing the cost of this, truly. Now that we know the consequences, countries will not use it.’

Dresden (uncountable)

1. A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.

• reddens

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʁeːsdn̩/

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Dresden n (proper noun, genitive Dresdens or (optionally with an article) Dresden)

1. Dresden (the capital city of Saxony)

• Dresdner

Dresden f

1. Alternative spelling of Dresdem