Führer

[ fy-ruhr; English fyoor-er ]

/ ˈfü rər; English ˈfyʊər ər /

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noun German.

leader.

der Führer

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

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Also Fueh·rer

[fyoor-er] /ˈfyʊər ər/ .

Origin of Führer

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby Führer

fugleman, fugly, fugu, fugue, fuguist, Führer, Führer, der, Fu-hsi, Fujayrah, Fuji, Fujian

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How to use Führer in a sentence

If you were emotionalized, you saw him clearly as the Fuhrer, but anyone who was reasonable and logical was seen as the enemy.
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The director of the Gestapo answered only to Heinrich Himmler, and Himmler, only to the Fuhrer himself.
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The Fuhrer claimed in his will that he was a man of modest means—but he was amassing billions in property, art, and cash.
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The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.
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Lieut. Wilhelm Winter says at the outset that he is fighting for the Fatherland, but by 1941 he is fighting for the Fuhrer.
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The result was a sense of betrayal and backstabbing exploited by the corporal-Fuhrer Hitler.
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British Dictionary definitions for Führer

Führer

Fuehrer

/ German (ˈfyːrər, English ˈfjʊərə) /

noun

a leader: applied esp to Adolf Hitler (der Führer) while he was Chancellor

Word Origin for Führer

German, from führen to lead

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