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Hitler

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈhɪtlɚ//

A surname from Austrian German.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Austrian German.

    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.

  2. 2

    Variant of Adolf HitlerA surname from Austrian German. Ellipsis of Adolf Hitler; Führer of the Nazi Party and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945; particularly as the embodiment of Nazism.

    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

Borrowed from German Hitler; see German Etymology for further details.

noun

  1. 1

    A dictatorial person; someone who loves to exert their power and influence over others. (often used as a term of abuse)

    A: Don't you think you could try sorting your rubbish instead of tossing everything out together? B: Ok, Hitler.

    How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler?

    tfw you could be starving and wanting to feed your family, but gender Hitler says no males for this job because a vagina makes you 'special'

    “He was called a ‘little Hitler’ yesterday,” Stevens said. “A guy pointed at him in his car and then he said that we didn’t like brown people. I don’t understand that at all.”

Forms

plural
Hitlers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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