Anschluss

From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ʃlʊs/

Anschluss (uncountable)

1. (historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. [from 1920s]
   • 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 44:

     ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’

   • 1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:

     Riane Eisler was born in Vienna in 1931. After the German Anschluss of Austria she fled with her family, first to Cuba and then to the U.S.

   • 2001, Clive James, Even As We Speak:

     Anton Kuh […] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.

• Anschluß (superseded)

Deverbal from anschließen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈanʃlʊs/

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• Hyphenation: An‧schluss

Anschluss m (strong, genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)

1. connection, joining
2. annexation
3. (historical) Anschluss
4. contact

• “Anschluss” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Anschluss” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Anschluss” in Duden online
• Anschluss on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Unadapted borrowing from German Anschluss.

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ʂlus/

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• Rhymes: -anʂlus
• Syllabification: An‧schluss

Anschluss m inan

1. (historical, Nazism) alternative spelling of anszlus

• Anschluss in Polish dictionaries at PWN