Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

german democratic republic

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: ger-man demo-crat-ic re-pub-lic
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

6

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Official name of East Germany (from 1947 through reunification in 1990): a former country in Central Europe.

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)."

Etymology

Calque of German Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

Inflected Forms

the German Democratic Republic (canonical) GDR (abbreviation)

Frequently Paired Words

DDR

Questions

What does german democratic republic mean?: Official name of East Germany (from 1947 through reunification in 1990): a former country in Central Europe.
Where does german democratic republic come from?: Calque of German Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

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