Dachau

[ dah-kou; German dah-khou ]

noun
  1. a city in SE Germany, near Munich: site of Nazi concentration camp.

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How to use Dachau in a sentence

  • Most remarkable among all the remarkable costumes to be seen was that of an old woman from Dachau.

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  • All the women in Dachau must be as "thick" as that, she said; and "lovers must have long arms to reach round them!"

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  • Such jokes would have made them about as popular as the Borscht Circuit comedian who told a funny story about Dachau in 1946.

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British Dictionary definitions for Dachau

Dachau

/ (German ˈdaxau) /


noun
  1. a town in S Germany, in Bavaria: site of a Nazi concentration camp. Pop: 39 474 (2003 est)

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Cultural definitions for Dachau

Dachau

[ (dah-kow, dah-khow) ]


A concentration camp established by the Nazis in southern Germany. (See Holocaust.)

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