The Defenestration of Prague of 23 May 1618 is considered to have triggered the Thirty Year War.
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Defenestration
//dɪˌfɛnɪˈstɹeɪʃ(ə)n//
Synonyms for "defenestration" (30 found)
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51 translations across 38 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- الرَّمْيُ مِنَ النَّافِذَة noun (act of throwing out a window)
Asturian
1 entries- defenestración noun (act of throwing out a window)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- дефенестрация noun (act of throwing out a window)
Catalan
1 entries- defenestració noun (act of throwing out a window)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 拋出窗外 /抛出窗外 noun (act of throwing out a window)
- 拋窗 /抛窗 noun (act of throwing out a window)
- 擲窗 /掷窗 noun (act of throwing out a window)
Czech
1 entries- defenestrace noun (act of throwing out a window)
Danish
2 entries- defenestrering noun (act of throwing out a window)
- vinduesudsmidning noun (act of throwing out a window)
Dutch
1 entries- defenestratie noun (act of throwing out a window)
Esperanto
1 entries- trafenestrigo noun (act of throwing out a window)
Estonian
1 entries- defenestratsioon noun (act of throwing out a window)
Finnish
2 entries- defenestraatio noun (act of throwing out a window)
- ikkunasta heittäminen noun (act of throwing out a window)
French
1 entries- défenestration noun (act of throwing out a window)
Galician
1 entries- defenestración noun (act of throwing out a window)
German
4 entries- Absetzung noun (high-profile removal of a person from an organization)
- Defenestration noun (act of throwing out a window)
- Entlassung noun (high-profile removal of a person from an organization)
- Fenstersturz noun (act of throwing out a window)
Greek
1 entries- εκπαραθύρωση noun (act of throwing out a window)
Indonesian
1 entries- defenestrasi noun (act of throwing out a window)
Interlingua
1 entries- defenestration noun (act of throwing out a window)
Italian
1 entries- defenestrazione noun (act of throwing out a window)
Japanese
2 entries- 窓外放出 noun (act of throwing out a window)
- 窓外放擲 noun (act of throwing out a window)
Latin
1 entries- defenestratio noun (act of throwing out a window)
Latvian
1 entries- defenestrācija noun (act of throwing out a window)
Lithuanian
1 entries- defenestracija noun (act of throwing out a window)
Macedonian
1 entries- дефенестра́ција noun (act of throwing out a window)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- defenestrasjon noun (act of throwing out a window)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- defenestrasjon noun (act of throwing out a window)
Polish
1 entries- defenestracja noun (act of throwing out a window)
Portuguese
1 entries- defenestração noun (act of throwing out a window)
Romanian
1 entries- defenestrație noun (act of throwing out a window)
Russian
1 entries- дефенестра́ция noun (act of throwing out a window)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- defenestrácija noun (act of throwing out a window)
- дефенестра́ција noun (act of throwing out a window)
Slovak
1 entries- defenestrácia noun (act of throwing out a window)
Slovene
1 entries- defenestracija noun (act of throwing out a window)
Spanish
1 entries- defenestración noun (act of throwing out a window)
Swedish
4 entries- defenestration noun (act of throwing out a window)
- defenestrering noun (act of throwing out a window)
- fönsterstörtning noun (act of throwing out a window)
- fönsterutkastning noun (act of throwing out a window)
Thai
1 entries- การโยนออกนอกหน้าต่าง noun (act of throwing out a window)
Turkish
1 entries- defenestrasyon noun (act of throwing out a window)
Ukrainian
1 entries- дефенестра́ція noun (act of throwing out a window)
Welsh
1 entries- diffenestriad noun (act of throwing out a window)
Sample sentences
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Defenestration is a common method of murder in Russia.
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The immediate defenestration of humanistic culture can't be a random project.
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The "Defenestration" at Prague (A.D. 1618). [...] The imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the window of the castle of Hradschin by the enraged Bohemian Deputies [...]
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