Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gdr

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables: gdr
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of global depository receipt.

name

Initialism of German Democratic Republic, official name of East Germany: A former Communist country of Central Europe, existing between 1949 and 1990.

Example Sentences

"Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR). […] Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it."

Inflected Forms

GDRs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

FRG Federal Republic of Germany West Germany

Synonyms

DDR

Questions

What does gdr mean?: Initialism of global depository receipt.

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