English

Adolf Hitler (German dictator)

Proper noun

Hitler

1. A surname of Austrian origin.
2. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany between 1933 and 1945.
   • 1964, David Hugh Freeman, A Philosophical Study of Religion:

     The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil.

   • 1977, Peter Thomas Geach, Providence and Evil:

     Similarly, 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; ...

   • 1994, Karen A. Rasler, William R. Thompson, The great powers and global struggle, 1490-1990:

     Mueller is even less convincing in his suggestion that World War II might never have happened if Hitler had never been born.

   • 2007, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion:

     People do evil things (Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Hitler ‎(plural Hitlers)

1. (derogatory) An unnecessarily dictatorial person.
   • 1986, William Borman, Gandhi and Non-Violence:

     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?

Anagrams

• lither

References

1. ↑ 2005, Jürgen Udolph, Sebastian Fitzek, Professor Udolphs Buch der Namen: Woher sie kommen, was sie bedeuten (C. Bertelsmann, München/Munich)
2. ↑
3. ↑ expressed in e.g.: 1956, Franz Jetzinger, Hitlers Jugend: Phantasien, Lügen und die Wahrheit (Europa-Verlag, Wien/Vienna)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from German Hitler.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)it.leʁ/

Proper noun

Hitler m

1. Hitler (Adolf Hitler, German dictator)

Derived terms

• hitleriano
• hitlerismo
• hitlerista

Noun

Hitler m (plural Hitlers or Hitleres)

1. (derogatory) Hitler (a dictatorial or excessively bossy person)

Derived terms

• hitlerismo
• hitlerista

Spanish

Proper noun

Hitler m

1. Hitler (Adolf Hitler, German dictator)