Gauleiter
German (Berlin)
noun
Definitions
- (historical) A leader of a local branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Reichsgau (an administrative division of the German state until 1945).
Etymology
Compound from German Gau (district, shire) + German Leiter (leader, conductor, manager, head).
Origin
German (Berlin)
Leiter
Gloss
leader, conductor, manager, head
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
長
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gauleiter English
- Aalleiter German
- Abteilungsleiter German
- Feuerleiter German
- Gau German
- Gaugraf German
- Hohlleiter German
- Leiter German
- Leiterbahn German
- Leiterin German
- Reiseleiter German
- Schriftleiter German
- Stromleiter German
- Verlagsleiter German
- Wellenleiter German
- Wärmeleiter German
- létra Hungarian
- lotre Serbo-Croatian
- лотре Serbo-Croatian
- leitara Old High German
- göu Middle High German