Landsturm

German (Berlin)

proper noun
Definitions
  • (historical) Any of the final reserves of the armed forces in Prussia and later Germany, in Austria, or in Switzerland, generally made up of older people, sometimes constituted as a regular portion of the country's armed forces, sometimes irregular.

Etymology

Compound from German Land (land, country, state, territory, province, principality, of the land, countryside) + German Sturm (storm, attack, assault).

Origin

German (Berlin)

Sturm

Gloss

storm, attack, assault

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

嵐

Emoji
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