HINDENBURG

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• HINDENBURG (noun)
  The noun HINDENBURG has 1 sense:

1. German field marshal and statesman; as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934)

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

• HINDENBURG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German field marshal and statesman; as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hindenburg; Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg; Paul von Hindenburg

Instance hypernyms:

field marshal (an officer holding the highest rank in the army)

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

 Context examples 

"He's a bootlegger," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. "One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)