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nazi
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nazi has 2 senses
- nazi(n = noun.person) german nazi - a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party; Array has particulars: brownshirt, storm trooper, adolf eichmann, eichmann, karl adolf eichmann, goebbels, joseph goebbels, paul joseph goebbels, goering, goring, hermann goering, hermann goring, hermann wilhelm goring, hess, rudolf hess, walther richard rudolf hess, heinrich himmler, himmler, adolf hitler, der fuhrer, hitler
- nazi(n = noun.person) Array - derogatory term for a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc.; Array is a kind of controller, restrainer
is a kind of fascist
Adjective nazi has 2 senses
- nazi(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis; "the total Nazi crime"; "the Nazi interpretation of history"
- nazi(a = adj.pert) national socialist - relating to a form of socialism; "the national socialist party came to power in Germany in 1933"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
nazi, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. Nazis)
1 hist. a member of the German National Socialist party.
2 derog. a person holding extreme racist or authoritarian views or behaving brutally.
3 a person belonging to any organization similar to the Nazis.
--adj. of or concerning the Nazis, Nazism, etc.
--n. (pl. Nazis)
1 hist. a member of the German National Socialist party.
2 derog. a person holding extreme racist or authoritarian views or behaving brutally.
3 a person belonging to any organization similar to the Nazis.
--adj. of or concerning the Nazis, Nazism, etc.
Derivative
Nazidom n. Nazify v.tr. (-ies, -ied). Naziism n. Nazism n.
Etymology
repr. pronunc. of Nati- in G Nationalsozialist
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