noun
Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army
• Regions: ↑Soviet Russia, ↑Russia, ↑Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑pitched battle
• Part Holonyms: ↑Napoleonic Wars
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/bawr'euh dee"noh, bor'-/; Russ. /beuh rddeuh dyi naw"/, n.
a village in the W Russian Federation, 70 mi. (113 km) W of Moscow: Napoleon's victory here made possible the capture of Moscow, 1812.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.