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reich
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun reich has 3 senses
- reich(n = noun.group) Array - the German state; Array is a kind of body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, state
- reich(n = noun.person) wilhelm reich - Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957); Array is a kind of analyst, psychoanalyst
- reich(n = noun.person) stephen michael reich, steve reich - United States composer (born in 1936); Array is a kind of composer
has particulars: hohenzollern empire, second reich, nazi germany, third reich
OXFORD DICTIONARY
reich, n. the former German State, esp. the Third Reich.
Idiom
First Reich the Holy Roman Empire, 962-1806. Second Reich the German Empire 1871-1918. Third Reich the Nazi regime, 1933-45.
Usage
Only Third Reich is normal historical terminology.
Etymology
G, = empire
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