a village in SW Germany, site of a victory of Anglo-Austrian forces under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy that saved Vienna from the French and Bavarians (1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession
Modern name: Blindheim
Blenheim in British English2
(ˈblɛnɪm)
noun
1.
a type of King Charles spaniel having red-and-white markings
2. Also called: Blenheim orange
a.
a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
b.
the fruit of this tree
Word origin
C19: named after Blenheim Palace
Blenheim in American English
(ˈblɛnəm)
village in S Germany, in the state of Bavaria: site of a battle (1704) in the War of the Spanish Succession in which the English-Austrian army under Marlborough and Prince Eugene defeated the Franco-Bavarian forces