Reichskanzler
English
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌɪxsˌkan(t)slə/, /ˈɹʌɪksˌkan(t)slə/
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- (historical) The German Chancellor or head of government from 1871 to 1945; specifically (from 1933 to 1945), Adolf Hitler as head of the Third Reich. [from 19th c.]
- 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 236:
- Maximilian, in spite of the cheerful disposition which he shared with Agáta, had been convinced […] that the parvenus who had come to power in Germany […] had abandoned themselves from the first to a blind lust for conquest and destruction, taking its cue from the magic word thousand which the Reichskanzler, as we could all hear on the wireless, repeated constantly in his speeches.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʁaɪ̯çsˌkantslɐ/
Audio (Germany) (file) - Hyphenation: Reichs‧kanz‧ler
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- (historical) Reichskanzler (male or of unspecified gender)
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Further reading
- “Reichskanzler” in Duden online
- “Reichskanzler” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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