Landau Definition

lăndô, -dou
noun
A four-wheeled covered carriage with the top in two sections, either of which can be lowered independently.
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A former style of automobile with a top whose back could be folded down.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • lev davidovich landau
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proper name
1908-68; Soviet theoretical physicist.
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Other Word Forms of Landau

Noun

Singular:
landau
Plural:
landaus

Origin of Landau

  • Named after the German city of Landau where such carriages were first made.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Landau , a city of southwest Germany

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Landau Sentence Examples

  • Dr Howley, archbishop of Canterbury, and the marquis of Conyngham, bearing the news of the king's death, started in a landau with four horses for Kensington, which they reached at five o'clock.

  • Spires (Speyer) is the seat of government, and the chief industrial centres are Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, which is the principal river port, Landau, and Neustadt, the seat of the wine trade.

  • Landau was founded in 1224, becoming an imperial city fifty years later.

  • The Landau branch of the family became extinct in 1 495, and in 1631 Waldeck inherited the county of Pyrmont, which had originally belonged to a branch of the Schwalenberg family.

  • He cared so little for Germany, as distinguished from Austria, that he allowed Lous to compel the diet to cede the imperial fortress of Landau.

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Words Starting With

LLALAN

Words Ending With

UAUDAU

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Words Starting With L and Ending With U

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With L6 Letter Words Ending With U