Reich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪx/
ipa: /ɹaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪx
rhymes: -aɪk
ipa: /raɪʃ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Reich (“empire, realm”). Doublet of Raj.
Senses: examples: text: The Empire is differently denominated as well by Germans themſelves as by others. It is called the Reich, in Latin Regnum, by way of eminence, as alſo the German Reich, in Latin Regnum Germanicum. The appellation of Germany, is ſeldom uſed now-a-days any where but in the title of the Emperor and Elector of Mentz.
ref: 1762, A[nton] F[riedrich] Busching, “Introduction to the Description of Germany”, in [Patrick Murdoch], transl., A New System of Geography: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World; […], volumes IV (Containing, Part of Germany, viz. Bohemia, Moravia, Lusatia, Austria, Burgundy, Westphalia, and the Circle of the Rhine), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A German empire, kingdom or nation; its territory or government.
examples: ref: 2016, Colin Philpott, Relics of the Reich: The Buildings The Nazis Left Behind:
ref: 2017, Gerhard Engel, At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler's Army Adjutant:
ref: 2019, Peter Finn, A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre:
glosses: The Third Reich; Nazi Germany.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: And so his fine words — they are excellent within these limitations — must be husbanded exclusively against foes of the Russian Reich. Nevertheless, he too turns his back on the past with a will. . . . God knows how far the Tolstoian talent […]
ref: 1936, The American Mercury, volumes 38-39, page 367:
text: Mr. Ycas, one of their members, told me that a serious attempt was made to strike for total independence but that the majority felt it was the wise course to ask for autonomy within the Russian Reich. A Lithuanian National Council was formed.
ref: 1943, Owen Joseph Christoffer Norem, Timeless Lithuania, page 280:
text: Did not Oliver Cromwell, the founder of the British Reich, boast that hanging Irishmen always gave him an excellent appetite? Yet who could deny that he was a political and military genius? One should always compare Imperialisms […]
ref: 1943, Francis A. Ridley, Towards the British Revolution, page 15:
text: Frere, obviously keen to start the thousand-year civilizing mission of the British Reich as soon as possible, invited Cetshwayo to a meeting in December 1878.
ref: 2000, Keith Grint, The Arts of Leadership, page 161:
text: […] we are presenting our analysis of the place and significance of the remote war technology within the American Reich.
ref: 2015, Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, page 226:
text: NATO and the European Union, both led by America, embody that purpose. It preserves the sovereignty of the member states, but ultimate sovereignty rests with the American Reich and all the states willingly coordinate their policies with and subordinate themselves to American leadership.
ref: 2017, Madhavan K. Palat, India and the World in the First Half of the Twentieth Century:
text: The Human Reich over nature is inherently flawed, catastrophically overextended, and soon to fall on its own sword.
ref: 2021, Steven Best, “Failed species”, in Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity, volume 9, number 2:
text: The Human Reich is a fundamentally flawed bit of imagination that can never be realized, as we critically depend on an intact ecology.
ref: 2023 October 24, Thomas W. Murphy, “Our Ugly Magnificence”, in Do the Math (blog):
glosses: Any empire, especially one that is imperialist, tyrannical, and/or racist.
Related terms: First Reich
Second Reich
Third Reich
Fourth Reich
Turd Reich
Holy Roman Empire
Weimar Republic