Definition of "Dresden"

Dresden

/ˈdɹɛzdən/

proper noun
1. The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe. ]
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.
  Quotations
  The actual total hardly matters: if Dresden was indeed a war crime, just one death would make it so.
  2001 July 23, Robin Neillands, The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany‎, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, page 358
  ‘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.’
  2017, John Theobald, A Kingdom Falls‎, Head of Zeus Ltd., page 314
noun
uncountable
1. A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.