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# napoleon

«napoleon» in Mova's school dictionary: **Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general who made himself…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Napoleon, a name; a napoleon — a pastry; a napoleon — an old French gold coin)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general who made himself Emperor of France and conquered much of Europe before he was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#m1)

2) A napoleon is a layered pastry with cream filling, also called a mille-feuille or vanilla slice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#m2)

3) A napoleon was an old French gold coin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons Napoleon is studied as a brilliant and ambitious leader whose wars changed Europe; he lost in Russia in winter and finally at Waterloo against Britain and Prussia, and was sent to the island of St Helena. He also made a famous set of laws, the Napoleonic Code. In stories, a «Napoleon» is a bossy, power-hungry person; in «Animal Farm», Napoleon is the pig who becomes a tyrant. Phrases: «the Napoleonic Wars», «a Napoleon complex».

### examples

- Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#x1)
- Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#x2)
- Napoleon's army retreated from Russia in the freezing winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#x3)
- The Napoleonic Wars lasted many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#x4)
- In «Animal Farm», Napoleon is a pig who takes over the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#x5)
- For pudding we had a napoleon with layers of pastry and cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#x6)
- Napoleon was sent away to the island of St Helena. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/#x7)

### note

Capital N for the person. Myth: Napoleon was not especially short; he was about average height for his time, and British cartoons made fun of him as tiny. «A Napoleon complex» is a popular, not scientific, idea that short people act bossy to make up for it.

### In the corpora

- [The Republic of Venice lasted about a thousand years until Napoleon ended it in 1797.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/18/)
- [Britain started income tax in 1799 to pay for wars against Napoleon; it was dropped and brought back several times and became permanent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time/15/)
- [Napoleon was about 1.69 metres tall, an ordinary or even slightly tall height for a Frenchman of his time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «napoleon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/napoleon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.