Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- King of the Huns (433?–453) who reigned over a large empire. He led a successful invasion of the Roman Empire but stopped short of sacking Rome.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, a genus of South American tyrant flycatchers, family Tyrannidæ, sometimes giving name to a subfamily Attilinæ. A. cinerea is the type, and about 12 other species are included in the genus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Tyrannidae — theattilas . - proper noun A king of the
tribes ofHuns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun king of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453)
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Examples
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Poems on the death of Attila -- the _Lay of Attila_ (_Atlakviða_), and the Greenland _Poem of Attila_ (_Atlamál_) 105
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But Attila is a brilliant leader and strategist, forming alliances and negotiating deals and treaties where necessary to initially protect his people, but ultimately to gain the upper hand.
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But Attila is a brilliant leader and strategist, forming alliances and negotiating deals and treaties where necessary to initially protect his people, but ultimately to gain the upper hand.
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“When she was still active, they called her Attila the Huness.”
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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“When she was still active, they called her Attila the Huness.”
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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“When she was still active, they called her Attila the Huness.”
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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His Tahirian guide, whom he called Attila - a perfectly respectable Hungarian name - felt likewise, and suggested a subtropical island en knew.
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
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The great criminal of this century, the man whose name will go down in history with Caligula and Attila is William the Second, German Emperor.
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Attila from the murder of his brother; and is almost inclined to reject the concurrent testimony of Jornandes, and the contemporary
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Which makes it all the more surprising that earlier this season, New Yorkers were to see yet another stage production - of Verdi's early opera "Attila" - designed by the buzzy architecture team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the Swiss visionaries who created the iconic and much-admired "Bird's Nest" stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
LJWorld.com stories: News Philip Kennicott/The Washington Post 2010
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