Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: prague
IPA transcription: [pɹ'ɑɡ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Prague, Praha, Prag, Czech_capital
    Meaning: the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century
Usage examples
  • While at Prague his salary was in continual arrear, and it was with difficulty that he could provide sustenance for his family.
  • No money could be got at Prague, so after a short time he accepted a professorship at Linz, and withdrew with his two quite young remaining children.
  • On his way to Prague he was seized with one of his periodical illnesses, and all his means were exhausted by the time he could set forward again, so that he had to apply for help to Tycho.
  • Made a last effort to overcome his poverty by getting the arrears of his salary paid at Prague, but was unsuccessful, and, contracting brain fever on the journey, died in November, 1630, aged 59.
  • It will stretch from Lille to Kiel, it will drive extensions along the Rhine valley into Switzerland, and fling an arm along the Moldau to Prague, it will be the industrial capital of the old world.
  • All the time he had been at Prague he had been making a severe study of the motion of the planet Mars, analyzing minutely Tycho's books of observations, in order to find out, if possible, the true theory of his motion.