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REICH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The German state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Reich" is a kind of...):

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Reich"):

Hohenzollern empire; Second Reich (the Reich when Hohenzollern monarchs ruled Germany (from 1871 to 1919))

Nazi Germany; Third Reich (the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States composer (born in 1936)

Synonyms:

Reich; Stephen Michael Reich; Steve Reich

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)

Synonyms:

Reich; Wilhelm Reich

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

analyst; psychoanalyst (a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis)

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