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HAKENKREUZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hakenkreuz mean? 

HAKENKREUZ (noun)
  The noun HAKENKREUZ has 1 sense:

1. the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise directionplay

  Familiarity information: HAKENKREUZ used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HAKENKREUZ (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Hakenkreuz; swastika

Hypernyms ("Hakenkreuz" is a kind of...):

tetraskele; tetraskelion (a figure consisting of four stylized human arms or legs (or bent lines) radiating from a center)

allegory; emblem (a visible symbol representing an abstract idea)

Domain region:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)


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