SWASTIKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swastika mean? 

• SWASTIKA (noun)
  The noun SWASTIKA 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 direction

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWASTIKA (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 ("swastika" 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)