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Definition: Reich |
ReichNoun1. The German state. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Reich" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Crosswords: Reich |
| English words defined with "Reich": First Reich ♦ Hakenkreuz ♦ Second Reich, swastika ♦ Third Reich. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Reich" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (reich), German (abundant, affluent, affluently, bounteous, bountiful, copious, costly, domain, empire, expensive, fertile, heavy, kingdom, large, lavish, lavishly, luxuriant, opulent, ornate, prolific, prosperous, reach, realm, rich, richly, state, substantial, sumptuous, wealthily, wealthy, well-off, wide), Hungarian (reich). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Reich is the German word for "realm" or "empire". It is the word traditionally used for sovereign entities, including Germany. For instance, any country with a King or Queen as head of state, such as Britain, is a Königreich (kingdom).
The term Reich was part of the official names of Germany over centuries. The German name for "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" (mid 10th century - 1806) is Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation. Later, Deutsches Reich was the official name of Germany from 1871 to 1945, although its three very different political systems are commonly referred to as German Empire (1871-1918), Weimar Republic (1919-1933), and finally Nazi Germany (1933-1945).
The Nazis, eager to present their rule as a continuation of a Germanic past, used the term Das Dritte Reich ('The Third Reich'), counting the Holy Roman Empire as the first and the 1871 Empire as the second. They also used the political slogan "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" ("One people, one country, one leader"). A number of words used by the Nazis which earlier were neutral have later taken on a negative connotation; the word "Reich" is one of them. Some right-wing extremists in Germany use the term today to describe their country.
The word is still used with the Reichstag building, which, since 1999, houses the German federal parliament again (today called Bundestag), and for the old Reichstag institution.
The Lord's Prayer (first translated into in Germanic language by Bishop Ulfilas) uses the words in the German version Dein Reich komme (thy kingdom come).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Reich."
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Screenplays | Major Strasser is one of the reasons the Third Reich enjoys the reputation it has today. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) It is our wish and will that this Reich and State shall stand for a thousand years to come! (Triumph des Willens; writing credit: Leni Riefenstahl; Walter Ruttmann) Did you know, I never knew that the Third Reich meant Germany. (The Producers; writing credit: Mel Brooks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reich (2001) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968) Im Reich des silbernen Löwen (1965) The Smashing of the Reich (1962) | |
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 | Atthis costae, Reich. Coste's Humming Bird. This image was included in: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Volume X. 1859. Plate XIX. P. 35 of U. S. Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys near the 35th Parallel. Call Number F593 .U58 1855 .Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Fatty -- you told me that not a single bomb would fall on Der Reich!.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Maytown (vicinity), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Tractor in the barn on the farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client Jay Reich.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Maytown (vicinity), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Jay Reich Jr. milking on the farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client Jay Reich.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Maytown (vicinity), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Jay Reich Jr. filling a milk can in the milk house on the farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client Jay Reich.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Maytown (vicinity), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jay Reich, wife of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Austria | In March 1938, Austria was incorporated into the German Reich, a development commonly known as the "Anschluss" (annexation). (references) |
Germany | Nazi support expanded rapidly in the early 1930s. Hitler was asked to form a government as Reich Chancellor in January 1933. After President Paul von Hindenburg died in 1934, Hitler assumed that office as well. (references) | |
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| "Reich" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.59% of the time. "Reich" is used about 204 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70.59% | 144 | 26,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 25.98% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.45% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.98% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 204 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Reich" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Reich | Last name | 4,000 | 3,183 |
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Expressions using "Reich": first Reich ♦ second reich ♦ the reich ♦ third reich. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Reich": reich-ish, Reich-prussia. | |
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| 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. |
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Albanian | perandori (empire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المانيا (germany). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | райх. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 德国"府. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Reichstriangulation (triangulation network of the Reich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | triangulatienetwerk van het Rijk (triangulation network of the Reich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reich, allemagne (Federal Republic of Germany). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ράιχ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | reich. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 第三帝国 (the Third Reich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いさ"てい"く (the Third Reich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eichray рейх. (various references) rajh. (various references) riket. (various references) อา"าจักรเยอรมันในช่วงปีค.ศ.1871-1919. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Reich": reichsmark, reichsmarks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Reich": dreich. (additional references) | |
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"Reich" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arich, Breich, Creigh, dreich, driech, Gremicha, Krilich, Rabigh, Raich, Refik, Reiche, Reichek, Reichnau, Reidh, reigh, reik, Reisch, Rench, repitch, Rheidh, Richd, riech, Riehl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-r" | |
-1 letter: cire, heir, hire, rice, rich. | |
-2 letters: chi, her, hic, hie, ice, ich, ire, rec, rei. | |
-3 letters: eh, er, he, hi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-r" | |
+1 letter: achier, cahier, ceriph, chicer, chider, chimer, chirre, cipher, cither, coheir, dreich, enrich, herdic, heroic, richen, richer, riches, thrice. | |
+2 letters: archine, archive, birched, birchen, birches, brioche, cahiers, cashier, ceriphs, chaired, charier, charlie, cheerio, cherish, chervil, chewier, chiders, chiefer, chigger, chiller, chimera, chimere, chimers, chipper, chirked, chirker, chirmed, chirped, chirper, chirred, chirres, chitter, choicer, choired, chokier, choregi, choreic, chorine, ciphers, cithern, cithers, cithren, coheirs, cushier, ditcher, eldrich, erethic, etheric, filcher, herdics, heretic, heroics, hircine, hitcher, itchier, nephric, phrenic, pincher, pitcher, rheumic, richens, richest, scherzi, shicker, spheric, techier, theriac, thermic, thicker, whicker, wincher. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 69 63 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .. -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101001 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e i c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0069 0063 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271756974 |
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