Nazi

  

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Nazi

Definitions: Nazi

Nazi

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Relating to a form of socialism; "the national socialist party came to power in 1933".

Noun

1. A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Nazi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Synonym: Nazi

Synonym: national socialist (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Nazi

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Government

Party; Democratic Party, Republican Party, Socialist Party, Communist Party; Federalist Party, Bull Moose Party, Abolitionist Party; Christian Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party; National Socialist Worker's Party, Nazi Party; Liberal Party, Labor Party, Conservative Party.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Nazi

English words defined with "Nazi": Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, Aryan, assumptionBrownshirtdenaturalise, denaturalize, denazify, Der Fuhrer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhowereconomic strangulation, Eichmann, Eisenhower, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel, emigrate, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchsfinal solution, FuchsGestapo, Goebbels, Goering, GoringHakenkreuz, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goering, Hermann Goring, Hermann Wilhaelm Goering, Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Hess, Himmler, Hitler, Hitlerian, holocaustIkeJoseph Goebbels, Josip BrozKarl Adolf Eichmann, Klaus Fuchs, Kurt Waldheimlaying claimMarshal TitoNazi Party, Nazify, Nuremberg, NurnbergPaul Joseph Goebbels, President Eisenhowerrail, revile, Rudolf HessS.O.P., S/N, SA, Samuel Wiesenthal, Schutzstaffel, Speer, SS, storm trooper, Storm Troops, Sturmarbeiteilung, swastikaThird Reich, Titovilify, vituperateWaldheim, Walther Richard Rudolf Hess, Wiesel, Wiesenthal. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Nazi": Command Economy. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Nazi" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (Nazi), French (nazi), German (nazi), Portuguese (Nazi), Spanish (Nazi), Swahili (cocoanut, cocoa-nut, coconut, coco-nut), Turkish (hitlerite, nazi).

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Modern Usage: Nazi

DomainUsage

Screenplays

So, what about World War two? What about Nazi Facism? (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

He's not a Nazi, Elaine. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

He's a Nazi, get him! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

So, you took on the whole Nazi party? (Cabaret; writing credit: Christopher Isherwood; John Van Druten)

Well unless they're transvestite Nazi war criminals with really good face-lifts, ours beats theirs. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Lyrics

Steppin' so hard like a German Nazi ("Play that funky music"; performing artist: Vanilla Ice)

About Transsexual Nazi Eskimos ("I Can't Watch This"; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Movie/TV Titles

The Nazi Plan (1945)

Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)

Diary of a Nazi (1943)

Nazi Agent (1942)

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Nazi

DomainTitle

Books

  • Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-And-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps (reference)

  • The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe (reference)

  • The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 (reference)

  • Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 (reference)

  • IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Secrets of War - Nazi Warfare (reference)

  • Television Under The Swastika: The History of Nazi Television (reference)

  • World War II - Vol. 1: Prelude to War/The Nazi Strike (reference)

  • In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine (reference)

  • Nova - Nazi Prison Escape (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Nazi

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Photograph of Nazi submariner foot trying to get out of submarine escape hatch Office of Strategic Services project to find sunken vessels with new technology Ray Tryon and John O. Phillips worked off USCGC GENTIAN in 1944 Example of early surface controlled ocean bottom photography.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Nazi

AuthorQuotation

Emo Philips

Women. You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash.

Winston Churchill

Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nazi

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Propaganda of Nazi and other proscribed organizations, as well as statements endorsing nazism, are illegal. (references)

The Nazi leadership attempted to remove or subjugate all non-German peoples in Germany by forced migration and, ultimately, genocide. (references)

The National Socialist (Nazi) Party, led by Adolf Hitler, stressed nationalist themes and promised to put the unemployed back to work. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ukraine

In September the Government commemorated the massacre at Babyn Yar, one of the most serious Nazi crimes of the Holocaust. (references)

Czech Republic

The Penal Code imposes prison terms of between 6 months and 3 years on persons who deny the Nazi Holocaust and the Communist genocide. (references)

Germany

For example, rallies and marches by neo-Nazis and rightwing radicals commemorating the death of Nazi official Rudolf Hess are banned routinely. (references)

Economic History

Estonia

When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, most Estonians greeted the Germans with relatively open arms. (references)

Slovakia

Slovakia had already declared its independence on March 14, 1939, and had become a Nazi German puppet state led by Jozef Tiso. (references)

Estonia

The U.S.S.R.'s forcible annexation of Estonia in 1940 and the ensuing Nazi and Soviet destruction during World War II crippled the Estonian economy. (references)

Human Rights

Lithuania

The Government continued to support the International Commission to Investigate the Crimes of Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. (references)

Czech Republic

On October 10, a court acquitted two former Communist officials accused of concealing and protecting Nazi war criminal Werner Tutter in the 1960's. The judge in the case ruled that the statute of limitations had expired. (references)

Lithuania

Government rehabilitation of over 50,000 persons charged with anti-Soviet crimes during the Stalin era led to reports in 1991 that some persons who allegedly were involved with crimes against humanity during the Nazi occupation had benefited from this rehabilitation. (references)

Minorities

Germany

Police found Nazi symbols and related items in the suspects' homes. (references)

Ukraine

Nationalists erected crosses on the site to commemorate Christian victims of Nazi terror. (references)

Ukraine

In Kiev crosses remained on the territory of an old Jewish cemetery near the site of the Nazi massacre at Babyn Yar. (references)

Political Economy

Switzerland

U.S. relations with Switzerland are strong, having significantly recovered from the strains resulting from investigations into Swiss handling of WWII Holocaust-era assets (i.e., dormant bank accounts and Nazi gold). (references)

Austria

In addition, the Austrian government started a program in April 2001 distributing $150 million to compensate Nazi era victims for losses of apartment and small business leases, as well as personal assets by issuing payments of $7,000 per capita. (references)

Austria

Following an initially shaky phase of the OVP/FPO government, characterized by EU sanctions against Austria and international concerns due to the controversial nature of the FPO, Austria's international relations normalized in the second half of the year 2000. In 2000 and 2001, the Austrian government also resolved Nazi era compensation issues by setting up two funds to provide compensation to former forced and slave laborers, and to address gaps and shortcomings in previous restitution programs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Nazi

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Imagine if Canada's neighbors were Iraq or Nazi Germany or the USSR or imperial Japan or any powerful empire.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Nazi

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953There also a formula was arrived at for the interim government of the areas in Europe which were rapidly being wrested from Nazi control.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Nazi

"Nazi" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.06% of the time. "Nazi" is used about 744 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)99.06%7379,199
Noun (singular)0.94%7133,076
                    Total100.00%744N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Nazi

Expressions using "Nazi": nazi Party nazi term. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Nazi": nazi-approved, nazi-dominated, nazi-hating, nazi-imposed, nazi-inspired, nazi-ism, nazi-like, nazi-occupied, nazi-soviet, nazi-style, nazi-supporters, nazi-sympathiser, nazi-type.

Ending with "Nazi": anti-nazi, neo-nazi, non-nazi, pro-nazi.

Containing "Nazi": lesbian-jewish-nazi-transvestite.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nazi

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nazi

2,004

neo nazi

296

nazi flag

261

nazi germany

187

nazi symbol

161

nazi picture

128

nazi propaganda

120

nazi party

109

nazi concentration camp

105

nazi officer wife

102
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nazi

Language Translations for "Nazi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nazist. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نازي, ‏النازي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

нацистки, нацист. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nacistický, nacista. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nazistisch, nazi-. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

nazio, nazia. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

natsi, kansallissosialisti (national socialist). (various references)

   

French

  

nazi. (various references)

   

German

  

nazi. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ναζιστικόσ, ναζιστήσ, ναζί. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fasiszta (fascist). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nazista. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ナイル鰐 (being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future, knapsack, knuckle, knuckle ball, knuckle four, knuckle part, NASA, NASA fashion, NASDAQ, NASTAR ski, national, national ad, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, national atlas, national bank, national brand, National Center of Trade Unions, national chain, national character, national consensus, national convention, national costume, national game, national holiday, national identity, national interest, National League, national minimum, national park, national prestige, national product, national project, national security, National Standard Race ski, National Trust, nationalism, nationalist, nationality, nationalization, Nationalsozialist, NATO, Natrium lamp, natural, natural cheese, natural color, natural foods, natural grip, natural science, natural selection, natural turn, natural wave, naturalism, naturalist, naturalistic, naturalization, naturalize, Nazism, Nile crocodile, nine, no, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, nothing, now, now-now-ism, nugget, nut, nuts, nylon, sodium, trendy, up-to-date). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ナチ (Nationalsozialist). (various references)

   

Manx

  

Natseeagh, Natsee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

azinay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

nazista (nazism), nazi, promontório (bill, Cape, foreleg, head, headland, headless, hoe, nest, promontory, promote, turn space). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nazist, fascist (fascist). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нацистский, нацист. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nacistički, nacista. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nazi. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nazist. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เกี่ยวกับพรรคนาซี, พรรคนาซี. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

nazi (hitlerite). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фашистський (fascist), фашист (fascist), нацистський, нацист. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

Quốc xã. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nazi

Derivations

Words beginning with "Nazi": nazification, nazifications, nazified, nazifies, nazify, nazifying, nazis. (additional references)

Words containing "Nazi": denazification, denazifications, denazified, denazifies, denazify, denazifying, fluphenazine, fluphenazines, monazite, monazites, perphenazine, perphenazines, phenazin, phenazine, phenazines, phenazins. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Nazi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anazi, anizi, ansii, anze, azi, cazi, Jaazim, Jazi, naai, Naali, naci, nadi, nadii, Nadzab, Naei, nai, n'ai, naih, naij, Na'im, naio, naip, naiu, naize, naji, Najin, naki, nami, Namiq, Namzi, nani, naoi, naqi, Naqib, Nari, nasa, nasc, Nasdim, nase, nasi, Nasif, nasir, naso, Nasri, nati, natzi, navi, naxi, nayi, Nayib, Naz, Nazeem, nazel, nazic, nazie, nazify, Nazih, nazil, nazim, nazin, Nazipov, nazir, nazit, Naziur, nazli, Nazmir, nazo, nazt, nazti, Nazzie, neaz, negi, neisi, neiz, Nekzad, neri, nesi, Nevzat, nexi, nez, Nezih, Nezu, Ngami, Niaz, Nimzo, niz, Nizar, nize, nizi, Nizniy, nozi, Nozzi, nusi, nuz, nuze, Nwanza, Nyanza, nz, Nze, onaz, Qasi, snazi, tazi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nazi"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Nazi" (pronounced nÄ"tsē)
4-Ä" t s ēpalazzi.
3-t s ēantsy, artsy, bitsy, chintzy, cutesy, ditsy, glitzy, Patsy, ritzy, tsetse.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Nazi

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-n-z"

-1 letter: ain, ani, zin.

-2 letters: ai, an, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-n-z"
 

+1 letter: azine, nazis, nizam, zayin.

 

+2 letters: agnize, azines, azonic, banzai, dazing, diazin, fazing, gazing, hazing, lazing, mazing, nazify, nizams, razing, zanier, zanies, zanily, zayins, zeatin, zinnia.

 

+3 letters: agenize, agnized, agnizes, agonize, amazing, anodize, banzais, biznaga, bizonal, blazing, brazing, canzoni, crazing, czarina, diazine, diazins, fanzine, feazing, gazania, glazing, grazing, hazanim, hazings, hoatzin, jazzing, kyanize, lazying, oxazine, razzing, thiazin, triazin, tzarina, tzigane, zagging, zaniest, zanyish, zapping, zeatins, zenaida, zincate, zingani, zingano, zingara, zingare, zingari, zingaro, zinnias.

 

+4 letters: agenized, agenizes, agnizing, agonized, agonizes, alizarin, anodized, anodizes, atrazine, avianize, banalize, bartizan, begazing, biznagas, botanize, brazilin, canalize, canonize, caponize, chazanim, czarinas, dazzling, denazify, diazines, diazinon, fanzines, finalize, gazanias, glazings, grazings, haziness, hazzanim, hoactzin, hoatzins, humanize, huzzaing, janizary, japanize, khazenim, kyanized, kyanizes, latinize, laziness, magazine, marzipan, maziness, melanize, monazite, nasalize, nazified, nazifies, nizamate, notarize, organize, oxazines, paganize, partizan, patinize, penalize, phenazin, quantize, razeeing, razoring, rendzina, romanize, salinize, sanitize, simazine, snazzier, stanzaic, suzerain, teazling, tetanize, thiazine, thiazins, topazine, triazine, triazins, tzarinas, tziganes, upgazing, urbanize, waltzing, whizbang, womanize, zabaione, zamindar, zaniness, zemindar, zenaidas, zenithal, zincates, zirconia, zonation, zoomania.

 

+5 letters: agatizing, agenizing, agonizing, alizarins, aluminize, amazingly, amazonite, analogize, analyzing, anatomize, anglicize, animalize, annualize, anodizing, apprizing, arabizing, atomizing, atrazines, avianized, avianizes, azotising, azotizing, balkanize, banalized, banalizes, baptizing, bartizans, blazingly, blazoning, bombazine, botanized, botanizes, brazening, brazilins, byzantine, canalized, canalizes, canonized, canonizes, caponized, caponizes, capsizing, carbonize, chalazion, chazzanim, chazzenim, cocainize, cognizant, craziness, deglazing, dialyzing, diazinons, diazonium, dualizing, emblazing, enzymatic, euthanize, fantasize, finalized, finalizes, frazzling, galvanize, gazetting, gazillion, gazumping, germanize, harmonize, hazarding, heliozoan, hoactzins, hoatzines, horizonal, humanized, humanizer, humanizes, huzzahing, hydrazine, imblazing, influenza, ionizable, isoniazid, japanized, japanizes, jargonize, jazziness, kyanizing, laicizing, latinized, latinizes, linearize, magazines, magnetize, manzanita, marzipans, mechanize, melanized, melanizes, mezzanine, monazites, narcotize, nasalized, nasalizes, nazifying, nizamates, normalize, notarized, notarizes, organized, organizer, organizes, organzine, ozonating, ozonation, paganized, paganizer, paganizes, partizans, patinized, patinizes, patronize, penalized, penalizes, phenazine, phenazins, platinize, quantized, quantizer, quantizes, randomize, realizing, reglazing, rendzinas, romanized, romanizes, salinized, salinizes, sanitized, sanitizes, sforzandi, signalize, simazines, sloganize, snazziest, suzerains, tantalize, tanzanite, teazeling, tetanized, tetanizes, thiazines, triazines, tyrannize, urbanized, urbanizes, vandalize, vernalize, vulcanize, whizbangs, whizzbang, womanized, womanizer, womanizes, zabaiones, zamindari, zamindars, zemindars, zemindary, zinfandel, zirconias, zonations, zoomanias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nazi


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 61 7A 69

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .-    --..    ..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100001 01111010 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#97 &#122 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0061 007A 0069

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48679275

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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