Napoleonic
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- adjective
- /nəˌpoʊliˈɑnɪk/
- And during the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon got charge of them.
- Napoleonic Wars
- Napoleonic era
- Napoleonic invasion
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- And now we have a common law, which is called Napoleonic law.
- This financial consistency was Britain's secret weapon in the Napoleonic Wars.
- That was the entire Napoleonic Wars that I played on a massive coffee table.
Examples
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The term triage has its origin in the Napoleonic Wars, when it referred to the management of casualties on the battlefield.
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We got here in the state of Louisiana what's known as the Napoleonic Code.
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But here I have a guy who sees himself in Napoleonic terms.
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You had the Napoleonic Wars going in full scale.
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That was the entire Napoleonic Wars that I played on a massive coffee table.
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You know, it begins with these Napoleonic wars in, in Europe.
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In the sixty years or so after the Napoleonic Wars, Britain came to dominate many regions of the globe.
Academic text (2004) -
This financial consistency was Britain's secret weapon in the Napoleonic Wars.
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Novik's novels, like those, are set during the Napoleonic Wars and closely linked to the British navy.
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The Napoleonic Code established legal principles that are still in use today.
Synonyms
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9.3
About Napoleon and his ideas of strong central government
Compounds
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6.5
A series of wars from 1799 to 1815 between France under Napoleon and other European countries
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Napoleonic comes from the name Napoleon, the French leader in the early 1800s, plus the ending -ic which means 'related to'. So Napoleonic means 'related to Napoleon', his time, or his style of ruling and fighting.