name
Meaning 1
A surname from Austrian German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Hitler
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈhɪtlɚ/
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CMU ARPABET: HH IH1 T L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from Austrian German.
Ellipsis of Adolf Hitler; Führer of the Nazi Party and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945; particularly as the embodiment of Nazism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A dictatorial person; someone who loves to exert their power and influence over others. (often used as a term of abuse)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, offensive
Examples
- A: Don't you think you could try sorting your rubbish instead of tossing everything out together? B: Ok, Hitler.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Stalin
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Adolf Hitler, Der Fuhrer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dictator, potentate, Nazi, German Nazi
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hitler; see German Etymology for further details.
Across languages
Translations
72 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Albanian: Hitleri — Adolf Hitler
- Amharic: ሂትለር (Hitlär) — Adolf Hitler
- Arabic: هِتْلَر (Hitlar) — Adolf Hitler
- Armenian: Հիտլեր — Adolf Hitler
- Azerbaijani: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Belarusian: Гі́тлер (Hítljer) — Adolf Hitler
- Bengali: হিটলার (Hiṭolar) — Adolf Hitler
- Bulgarian: Хи́тлер (Hítler) — Adolf Hitler
- Burmese: ဟစ်တလာ (Hacta.la) — Adolf Hitler
- Carpathian Rusyn: Гі́тлер (Hítler) — Adolf Hitler
- Chinese Cantonese: 希特拉 (hei1 dak6 laai1) — Adolf Hitler
- Chinese Mandarin: 希特勒 (Xītèlè) — Adolf Hitler
- Chuvash: Китлӗр (Kitlĕr) — Adolf Hitler
- Crimean Tatar: Gitler — Adolf Hitler
- Czech: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Danish: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Esperanto: Hitlero — Adolf Hitler
- Finnish: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- French: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Georgian: ჰიტლერი (hiṭleri) — Adolf Hitler
- German: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Greek: Χίτλερ (Chítler) — Adolf Hitler
- Hebrew: היטלר — Adolf Hitler
- Hindi: हिटलर (Hiṭlar) — Adolf Hitler
- Hungarian: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Japanese: ヒトラー (Hitorā) — Adolf Hitler
- Kannada: ಹಿಟ್ಲರ್ (Hiṭlar) — Adolf Hitler
- Kazakh: Һитлер — Adolf Hitler
- Kazakh: Гитлер — Adolf Hitler
- Khmer: ហ៊ីត្លែរ (hiitlae) — Adolf Hitler
- Korean: 히틀러 (Hiteulleo) — Adolf Hitler
- Kyrgyz: Хитлер — Adolf Hitler
- Kyrgyz: Гитлер (Gitler) — Adolf Hitler
- Ladino: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Ladino: חיטליר — Adolf Hitler
- Lao: ຮິດແລ (Hit lǣ) — Adolf Hitler
- Latin: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Latvian: Hitlers — Adolf Hitler
- Lithuanian: Hitleris — Adolf Hitler
- Macedonian: Хитлер — Adolf Hitler
- Malayalam: ഹിറ്റ്ലര് (Hiṟṟlarŭ) — Adolf Hitler
- Marathi: हिटलर (Hiṭlar) — Adolf Hitler
- Mongolian: Гитлер (Gitler) — Adolf Hitler
- Mongolian: Хитлер (Xitler) — Adolf Hitler
- Navajo: Dágháilchįįh — Adolf Hitler
- Norwegian Bokmål: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Ossetian: Гитлер (Gitler) — Adolf Hitler
- Pashto: هيتلر — Adolf Hitler
- Persian: هیتلر — Adolf Hitler
- Polish: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Portuguese: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Romanian: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Russian: Ги́тлер (Gítler) — Adolf Hitler
- Sanskrit: हिट्लर (Hiṭlara) — Adolf Hitler
- Serbo-Croatian: Хитлер — Adolf Hitler
- Serbo-Croatian: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Sinhalese: හිට්ලර් (Hiṭlar) — Adolf Hitler
- Spanish: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Swedish: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Tagalog: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Tajik: Ҳитлер — Adolf Hitler
- Tamil: ஹிட்லர் (Hiṭlar) — Adolf Hitler
- Tatar: Һитлер — Adolf Hitler
- Telugu: హిట్లర్ (Hiṭlar) — Adolf Hitler
- Thai: ฮิตเลอร์ (hít-lə̂ə) — Adolf Hitler
- Turkish: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Ukrainian: Гі́тлер (Hítler) — Adolf Hitler
- Urdu: ہٹلر (hiṭlar) — Adolf Hitler
- Uzbek: Hitler — Adolf Hitler
- Vietnamese: Hít-le — Adolf Hitler
- Yiddish: היטלער — Adolf Hitler
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