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Member of the Prussian aristocracy noted especially for militarism
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junker
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Junker may refer to: Junker , originally a noble honorific used across the German-speaking realm and in today's Belgium and The Netherlands Junker (Prussia) , a 19th and early 20th century term for the landed aristocracy of Prussia and Eastern Germany Junker ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Junker \Jun"ker\, n. [G. Cf. Yonker .] A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"young German noble," 1550s, from German Junker , from Old High German juncherro , literally "young lord," from junc "young" (see young ) + herro "lord" (see Herr ). Pejorative sense of "reactionary younger member of the Prussian aristocracy" (1865) dates ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes. Etymology 2 n. A beat-up automobile.
Usage examples of junker.
Stuka, the dihedral - gull-winged Junker 87 dive-bomber - was the most feared of all.
As Hurks worked, the other men labored to get the tarpaulin over the Junkers.
Considering how poor the neighborhood was, there were a remarkable number of cars: junkers, aging Eldorado pimpmobiles, fancy SUVs with huge speakers tilting up from their rear beds.
His attitude became more frigid when Bruening proposed that the State take over a number of bankrupt Junker estates in East Prussia, after generous compensation, and give them to the landless peasants.
Wagner and Bauer were working the Bofors gun on the after deck, tracer streaming up in an arc, following the Junkers as it sped away and Wittig was hammering at it with the 20mm ack-ack gun in the fore deck well.
Becker paid attention, the cat sprang up to his shoulder, lay against his neck and purred with a noise that rivaled that of the rustiest rattletrap engine of an outmoded junker ship.
Considering how poor the neighborhood was, there were a remarkable number of cars: junkers, aging Eldorado pimpmobiles, fancy SUVs with huge speakers tilting up from their rear beds.
On April 1, 1943, a Junker squadron dropped several bellyfuls of five hundred-pounders on the First Armored command post in the Wadi Akarit, north of Ei Hamma.
Thus it came to the turn of Ursula Tetzel and she, looking round on Junker Henning or ever she spoke, said, with a proud curl of her red lips, that she could give no opinion, inasmuch as she only knew what beseemed young maids of noble birth.
A lank lieutenant with the corseted waist of the officers that he had seen in Berlin, a genuine Junker, was a few feet away, sword in hand behind his men, like a wrathful and glowering shepherd.
Behind the cyclone fence, most of the cars in the lot were junkers, but a few Cadillacs and Bentleys were there, too.
The authorities ain't inclined to believe you, not in the face of explanations from an imposing lady of quality and her Junker escort, backed by four worthy cabbage-eaters in hard hats.
Array the whole of the Dominion and the Cardassian fleets behind and Martok in an old D-5 junker with a clogged disrupter and ion propulsion.
The doors to one of them stood open revealing the three engines and distinctive corrugated metal fuselage of a JU52, the Junkers transport plane that was the workhorse of the German Army.
Necker recognized Heider and then saw a bandaged sailor being taken from the personnel carrier by two soldiers who led him to the Junkers and helped him inside.