junker
see also: Junker
Pronunciation
Junker
Noun
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see also: Junker
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈjʊŋkə(r)/
junker (plural junkers)
- A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- Professors of philosophy and science carrying high the patriotic banner of Kultur and culture gloried in the system of compulsory, universal, military service, first made in Germany exulted in the degrading, vicious process of training by which the individual is hypnotized into submission to a brutal organization of military junkers, hallowed by the name of state and Fatherland, it was the darkest period in the history of mankind.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- IPA: /ˈdʒʌŋkə(r)/
junker (plural junkers)
- (informal, US, Canada) A beat-up automobile.
Junker
Noun
junker (plural junkers)
- Alternative spelling of junker
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