LEBENSRAUM

Etymology

Noun

lebensraum (plural lebensräume)

(chiefly, with reference to nations and peoples) Hitherto unoccupied “living space” claimed as one’s rightful domain.

Anagrams

• mensurable, seralbumen

Etymology

Proper noun

Lebensraum

(in German history from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Centuries) Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race

(in early usage) an empire in the form of overseas colonies, in imitation of contemporary powers such as Britain and France.

(in later usage, Nazism) a GroĂźdeutschland obtained through Endoeuropean expansion, usually with a focus upon Drang nach Osten, and varying in its scope from the comparatively modest annexation of the Polish Border Strip to overlordship of the European continent by the conquest of Russian lands as far as the Urals.

Anagrams

• mensurable, seralbumen

Source: Wiktionary



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