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fuhrer

/fy-ruhr; English fyoor-er/US // ˈfü rər; English ˈfyʊər ər //UK // German (ˈfyːrər, English ˈfjʊərə) //

元首,首脑,领袖

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    German.

    • : leader.
    • : der Führer [der fy-rer], /ˌdɛr ˈfü rər/, the leader: title of Adolf Hitler.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • If you were emotionalized, you saw him clearly as the Fuhrer, but anyone who was reasonable and logical was seen as the enemy.

  • The director of the Gestapo answered only to Heinrich Himmler, and Himmler, only to the Fuhrer himself.

  • The Fuhrer claimed in his will that he was a man of modest means—but he was amassing billions in property, art, and cash.

  • The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.

  • Lieut. Wilhelm Winter says at the outset that he is fighting for the Fatherland, but by 1941 he is fighting for the Fuhrer.

  • The result was a sense of betrayal and backstabbing exploited by the corporal-Fuhrer Hitler.