Anschluss
See also: Anschluß
English edit
Etymology edit
From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Anschluss (uncountable)
- (historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. [from 1920s]
- 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 44:
- ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’
- 2001, Clive James, Even As We Speak:
- Anton Kuh […] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.
Translations edit
the annexation of Austria into Germany in 1938 or an analogy
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German edit
Alternative forms edit
- Anschluß (superseded)
Etymology edit
Deverbal from anschließen.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Anschluss m (strong, genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)
Declension edit
Declension of Anschluss [masculine, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Anschluss | die | Anschlüsse |
genitive | eines | des | Anschlusses | der | Anschlüsse |
dative | einem | dem | Anschluss, Anschlusse1 | den | Anschlüssen |
accusative | einen | den | Anschluss | die | Anschlüsse |
1Now rare, see notes.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Anschluss” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Anschluss” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Anschluss” in Duden online
- Anschluss on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from German Anschluss.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Anschluss m inan
- (historical, Nazism) Alternative spelling of anszlus
Further reading edit
- Anschluss in Polish dictionaries at PWN