Wehrmacht

Unadapted borrowing from German Wehrmacht.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛə(ɹ)ˌmɑːxt/, /ˈvɛə(ɹ)ˌmɑːkt/

Wehrmacht

1. (historical, Nazism) The German armed forces from 1935 to 1945.

   Coordinate terms: Waffen-SS, Schutzstaffel, Sturmabteilung

   • 1996, Robert Doughty, World War II: Total Warfare Around the Globe, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 106:

     In the end the Allies battered the Wehrmacht back to the Reich and ended whatever chance the Germans had of escaping their fate.

From wehren + Macht.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveːʁmaxt/

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Wehrmacht f (genitive Wehrmacht, plural Wehrmächte)

1. (archaic) armed forces

• In modern usage, Wehrmacht refers specifically to the Nazi-era military. It is no longer used for armed forces generally.

• Streitkraft
• Streitmacht

Wehrmacht f (proper noun, genitive Wehrmacht)

1. (historical, Nazism) Wehrmacht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945)

• Reichswehr
• Bundeswehr

• → English: Wehrmacht
• → Polish: Wehrmacht

• “Wehrmacht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Wehrmacht” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Wehrmacht” in Duden online
• Wehrmacht on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• wermacht

Unadapted borrowing from German Wehrmacht.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛr.maxt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrmaxt
• Syllabification: Wehr‧macht

Wehrmacht m inan (related adjective wehrmachtowski)

1. (historical) Wehrmacht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945)

   Coordinate terms: Schutzstaffel, Sturmabteilung, Waffen-SS

• Wehrmacht in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wehrmacht in PWN's encyclopedia