napoleon

[US]/nə'pəuliən/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.old French coin (worth 20 francs);Napoleon

Phrases & Collocations

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleonic Wars

Napoleon's exile

Example Sentences

let's take Napoleon, for instance.

Napoleon's retreat from Moscow

Napoleon was sent into exile on an island.

a garden built to celebrate Napoleon's many triumphs.

He portrayed Napoleon in the play.

he had been a member of a deputation to Napoleon III.

The forces of Napoleon were vanquished at Waterloo.

if Napoleon had had railways at his disposition , he would have been invincible.

My little grandbaby,Napoleon Picard, is giving a party for Bonnie next week.

John Heder is a twin and he is probably best known as Napoleon Dynamite.

Historical analogies,as between Napoleon and Hitler,ought not to be carried too far.

We studied the tactics used in Napoleon's day. The day of computer science is well upon us.

"Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours." -- Napoleon Bonaparte (Attributed)("A good sketch is better than a long speech." or "A picture is worth a thousand words."

His project of killing Napoleon, and his calculations of the cabalistic numbers, and of the beast of the Apocalypse struck him now as incomprehensible and positively ludicrous.

Percier and Fontaine, Napoleon's architects who designed the Malmaison, creat beyond the facade a warm decor, made of antic marble columns adding beauty to the half moon shaped wood counter.

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