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Nazi

Syllabification: (Na·zi)
Pronunciation: /ˈnätsē/

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Definition of Nazi

noun (plural Nazis)

historical
  • a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
  • a member of an organization with ideology similar to Nazism.
  • derogatory a person who holds and acts brutally in accordance with extreme racist or authoritarian views.

The Nazi Party was formed in Munich after World War I. It advocated right-wing authoritarian nationalist government and developed a racist ideology based on anti-Semitism and a belief in the superiority of “Aryan” Germans. Its charismatic leader, Adolf Hitler, who was elected Chancellor in 1933, established a totalitarian dictatorship, rearmed Germany in support of expansionist foreign policies in central Europe, and thus precipitated World War II. The Nazi Party collapsed at the end of the war and was outlawed in Germany

adjective

  • of or concerning the Nazis or Nazism.

Derivatives

Nazidom

Pronunciation: /-dəm/

noun

Nazify

Pronunciation: /ˈnätsiˌfī/

verb (Nazifies, Nazifying, Nazified)

Naziism

Pronunciation: /-ˌizəm/

noun

Nazism

Pronunciation: /ˈnätˌsizəm/

noun

Origin:

German, abbreviation representing the pronunciation of Nati- in Nationalsozialist 'national socialist'

Nazi in other Oxford dictionaries

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