rijksdag
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From rijk (“empire”) + -s- + dag (“representative assembly”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: rijks‧dag
Noun edit
rijksdag m (plural rijksdagen)
- An imperial diet, notably:
- of the Holy Roman Empire
- of imperial (Hohenzollern) Germany
- of the Third Reich, Nazi Germany
- as upper house (senate) in the empire Japan since the Meiji reform