hitler
/ˈhɪtlɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.16 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname from Austrian German.
name
A surname from Austrian German.
Example Sentences
- "It was reminiscent of the rallies held by Adolph Hitler during the 1930s-1940s before adoring crowds in Nazi Germany. At many of these Nazi rallies, the German participants swore personal allegiance to their nation’s leader-Adolph Hitler over and above their own Nation-Germany."
- "The British ruling class are fighting against Hitler, whom they have always regarded and whom some of them still regard as their protector against Bolshevism. That does not mean that they will deliberately sell out; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter, pull their punches, do the wrong thing. Until the Churchill Government called some sort of halt to the process, they have done the wrong thing with an unerring instinct ever since 1931."
- "Clearly, Hitler saw his historical function as a Wagnerian grand opera. Vast cosmic changes required an accompaniment of slaughter on a colossal scale."
- "What is one curious about when he asks, What is evil? The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil."
- "[…]the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler has to be different after Hitler’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on Hitler’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; it is not manifest that there must have been a real change of mind on God's side. And Aquinas can say this[…]"
- "Mueller is even less convincing in his suggestion that World War II might never have happened if Hitler had never been born."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɪtlɚ/
Usage
Subject
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