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Nazi

Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːtsi/

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Definition of Nazi

noun (plural Nazis)

historical
  • a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
  • derogatory a person with extreme racist or authoritarian views.
  • a person who seeks to impose their views on others in a very autocratic or inflexible way:I learned to be more open and not such a Nazi in the studio

The Nazi Party was formed in Munich after the First World War. 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 leader, Adolf Hitler, who was elected Chancellor in 1933, established a totalitarian dictatorship and precipitated the Second World War. The Nazi Party collapsed at the end of the War and was outlawed

adjective

  • of or concerning the Nazis or Nazism.

Derivatives

Nazidom

noun

Nazify

Pronunciation: /-fʌɪ/

verb (Nazifies, Nazifying, Nazified)

Naziism

Pronunciation: /-iːɪz(ə)m/

noun

Nazism

Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːtsɪz(ə)m/

noun

Origin:

German, abbreviation representing the pronunciation of Nati- in Nationalsozialist 'national socialist', probably by analogy with Sozi, from Sozialist 'socialist'

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