English
Etymology
From fourth + Reich.
Proper noun
the Fourth Reich
- A hypothetical resurrection of Nazi Germany (Third Reich).
2005, “Special Delivery”, in MC Frontalot (music), Nerdcore Rising[1]:Are you listening, sir? Or did your mind drift / to the next country in your axis, / to all the cool bomb drops you get to call: / delivery fresh from the Fourth Reich to y’all?
2009, Monte Cook, “Everything's Better with Nazis”, in The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies[2], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:From their hideaways in South America, it would have been easy for the Nazis to slink away down to New Swabia and establish the Fourth Reich.
- Synonym: Western Imperium
- (figuratively) A government or country seen as similarly authoritarian.
- (historical) A nickname for Washington Heights, Manhattan, after the German immigrants who reside there.
1937, Report of the New York Public Library for 1937, page 92:" […] This ‘Fourth Reich’ section of the City has no decrease in the number of Central European refugees."
Coordinate terms
Translations
a hypothetical resurrection of the Third Reich
- Arabic: الرَّايْخ الرَابِع m (ar-rayḵ ar-rābiʕ)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: Dördüncü Reyx
- Belarusian: Чацвёрты рэйх m (Čacvjórty rejx)
- Bulgarian: Четвъ́рти райх m (Četvǎ́rti rajh)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 第四帝國 / 第四帝国
- Czech: čtvrtý říše f
- Danish: Fjerde Rige n
- Dutch: Vierde Rijk n
- Estonian: Neljas Reich
- Finnish: Neljäs valtakunta
- French: Quatrième Reich m
- Georgian: მეოთხე რაიხი (meotxe raixi)
- German: Viertes Reich (de) n
- Greek: Τέταρτο Ράιχ n (Tétarto Ráich)
- Hebrew: הרייך הרביעי m
- Hungarian: Negyedik Birodalom
- Italian: quarto Reich m
- Japanese: 第四帝国 (Daiyon teikoku), ドイツ第四帝国 (Doitsu daiyon teikoku), ナチス第四帝国 (Nachisu daiyon teikoku)
- Korean: 제사제국(第四帝國) (jesajeguk), 제4제국(第四帝國) (je4jeguk)
- Latvian: Ceturtais reihs m
- Lithuanian: Ketvirtasis Reichas m
- Macedonian: Четврт Рајх m (Četvrt Rajh)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Det fjerde riket n
- Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: Czwarta Rzesza f, IV Rzesza f
- Portuguese: Quarto Reich m
- Romanian: Al Patrulea Reich n
- Russian: Четвёртый рейх m (Četvjórtyj rejx)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Чѐтвр̄тӣ рајх m
- Roman: Čètvr̄tī rajh m, Čètvr̄tī Reich m
- Slovak: štvrtá ríša f
- Slovene: Četrti Rajh m
- Spanish: cuarto Reich m
- Swedish: Fjärde riket n
- Ukrainian: Четве́ртий рейх m (Četvértyj rejx)
- Yiddish: פֿערטע רײַך n (ferte raykh)
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