Gestapo
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See also: gestapo
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ/, (hyper-foreign) /ɡəˈʃtɑːpəʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɛˈstɑpoʊ/, (hyper-foreign) /ɡəˈʃtɑpoʊ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːpəʊ
Proper noun
the Gestapo
- (historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227:
- Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.
- (informal, derogatory, by extension) Any militant oppressive force or group.
- 2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke, page 230:
- Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.
Derived terms
Translations
the secret police of Nazi Germany
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Further reading
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gestapo
- Gestapo (Nazi secret police)
Declension
| Inflection of Gestapo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Gestapo | — | |
| genitive | Gestapon | — | |
| partitive | Gestapoa | — | |
| illative | Gestapoon | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Gestapo | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Gestapo | — |
| gen. | Gestapon | ||
| genitive | Gestapon | — | |
| partitive | Gestapoa | — | |
| inessive | Gestapossa | — | |
| elative | Gestaposta | — | |
| illative | Gestapoon | — | |
| adessive | Gestapolla | — | |
| ablative | Gestapolta | — | |
| allative | Gestapolle | — | |
| essive | Gestapona | — | |
| translative | Gestapoksi | — | |
| abessive | Gestapotta | — | |
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| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
German
Etymology
Contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”). The predominant pronunciation with /st/ is from reading out the form as one word and thus to some extent a spelling pronunciation.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
die Gestapo f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Gestapo)
Declension
Declension of Gestapo
Related terms
Further reading
Geheime Staatspolizei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Italian
Proper noun
Gestapo f
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gestapo n (indeclinable)
- (historical, Nazism) Alternative spelling of gestapo
Declension
Indeclinable
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Declension of Gestapo
Related terms
adjective
nouns
Further reading
- Gestapo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gestapo f
- (historical) Gestapo (the secret police of the Nazi party)