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Nazi

[ naht-see, nat- ]

noun

plural Nazis.
  1. a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, antisemitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
  2. (often lowercase) a person elsewhere who holds similar views.
  3. (often lowercase) Sometimes Offensive. a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to regulate a specified activity, practice, etc.:

    a jazz nazi who disdains other forms of music;

    health nazis trying to ban junk food.



adjective

  1. of or relating to the Nazis.

Nazi

/ ˈnɑːtsɪ; ˈnɑːtsɪˌɪzəm; ˈnɑːtˌsɪzəm /

noun

  1. a member of the fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party, which was founded in 1919 and seized political control in Germany in 1933 under Adolf Hitler
  2. derogatory.
    anyone who thinks or acts like a Nazi, esp showing racism, brutality, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of, characteristic of, or relating to the Nazis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Sensitive Note

Nazi in the extended sense of “a fanatical or domineering person” has existed at least since 1980 and parallels the use of the word police in the language police/the grammar police . Though this usage of Nazi is usually intended as jocular, it implies being intolerant of other people’s views and practices. And many people consider any extended use of the word Nazi to be offensive, in that it trivializes the terrible crimes of the German Nazis.
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Derived Forms

  • Nazism, noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Nazi1

First recorded in 1930–35; from German Nazi, short for Nationalsozialist “National Socialist”
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Nazi1

C20: from German, phonetic spelling of the first two syllables of Nationalsozialist National Socialist
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Example Sentences

People would point out that the Nazis were inspired by the racial caste system in the United States and of course, as you well know, we have a long tradition in this country of reaction.

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Besides anti-authoritarianism, which isn't really a policy, it's more just a “We don't like Nazis type of thing.”

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Eric Roberts, known as Jack King, had posed as a Gestapo agent, to find and work with Nazi sympathisers in Britain.

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The American Library Association has a Bill of Rights, adopted on June 19, 1939, as a response to book burnings in Nazi Germany.

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The panel resolves claims from people, or their heirs, who lost possession of cultural property during the Nazi era, which is now held in national collections in the UK.

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