junker
21junker — ☆ junker [juŋ′kər ] n. [< JUNK1, vt.] Slang an old, dilapidated car or truck …
22Junker — 1. Besser ein Stroherner Juncker1, denn zween stelerne Bürger oder vier eiserne Bawren vnd Knechte. – Petri, III, 1. 1) Das Wort ist aus junger Herr entstanden, daher man es in älterer Schreibweise Junkher findet. In unserer Zeit bezeichnet man… …
23Junker — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Junker (homonymie). Le junker (Jkr.) était un aristocrate de propriété terrienne en Prusse et en Allemagne orientale[1] et un grade de la table des Rangs en Russie impériale. En tant que groupe, les junkers ont… …
24Junker — Junkers (English pronunciation: IPA| [jŋk ə] ; German pronunciation: IPA| [jŋ k] ) were the landed nobility of Prussia and eastern Germany. These families were mostly part of the German Uradel (very old feudal nobility) and carried on the… …
25Junker — Derived from junger Herr, “young nobleman,” a junker was a member of the landed aristocracy of Prussia and other regions of northeastern Germany east of the Elbe River. Descended from feudal nobility, in some cases dating as far back as the… …
26junker — /jung keuhr/, n. Slang. a car that is old, worn out, or in bad enough repair to be scrapped. [1880 85, Amer., for an earlier sense; JUNK1 + ER1] * * * ▪ Prussian and German landowner (German: “country squire”), member of the landowning… …
27Junker — /yoong keuhr/, n. 1. a member of a class of aristocratic landholders, esp. in East Prussia, strongly devoted to militarism and authoritarianism, from among whom the German military forces recruited a large number of its officers. 2. a young… …
28Junker — Landjunker * * * Jụn|ker 〈m. 3; früher〉 1. adliger Gutsbesitzer 2. junger Adliger [<ahd. juncherro; → jung, Herr] * * * Jụn|ker, der; s, [mhd. juncherre = Edelknabe, Knappe; eigtl. = junger Herr]: 1. (früher) junger Edelmann. 2. ( …
29Junker — jung: Das gemeingerm. Adjektiv mhd. junc, ahd. jung, got. juggs, engl. young, schwed. ung geht, wie z. B. auch das substantivierte Adjektiv lat. iuvencus »junger Stier; junger Mensch«, auf eine Weiterbildung des idg. Adjektivs *i̯uu̯en »jung«… …
30Junker — Standesname oder Übername zu mhd. junchлrre »junger Herr, junger (noch nicht Ritter gewordener) Adliger, Junker, Edelknabe« …
