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REICH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The German state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Reich" is a kind of...):
body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Reich"):
Hohenzollern empire; Second Reich (the Reich when Hohenzollern monarchs ruled Germany (from 1871 to 1919))
Nazi Germany; Third Reich (the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945))
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States composer (born in 1936)
Synonyms:
Reich; Stephen Michael Reich; Steve Reich
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
composer (someone who composes music as a profession)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)
Synonyms:
Reich; Wilhelm Reich
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
analyst; psychoanalyst (a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis)
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