Spengler

[ speng-gler; German shpeng-gluhr ]

/ ˈspɛŋ glər; German ˈʃpɛŋ glər /

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noun

Os·wald

[oz-wawld; German aws-vahlt], /ˈɒz wɔld; German ˈɔs vɑlt/, 1880–1936, German philosopher.

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OTHER WORDS FROM Spengler

Speng·le·ri·an

[speng-gleer-ee-uhn, shpeng-], /spɛŋˈglɪər i ən, ʃpɛŋ-/, noun, adjective

Words nearby Spengler

spending money, spends, spendthrift, spendthrift trust, Spener, Spengler, Spenser, Spenserian, Spenserian sonnet, Spenserian stanza, spent

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How to use Spengler in a sentence

Eventually this drew a visit from the local head of the Security Police, Colonel Att Spengler.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings|Benjamin Pogrund|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Spengler wanted to know how I was getting all this information.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings|Benjamin Pogrund|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I found the morose philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spengler) the most interesting.
William H. Gass: How I Write|Noah Charney|March 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What did Newtown killer Adam Lanza and Webster, N.Y., Christmas shooter William Spengler have in common?
The Ultimate 2012 Quiz|Michael Tomasky|December 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Comparative historians like Spengler, Pareto and Toynbee realized that history did not merely happen but had some kind of pattern.
The Sensitive Man|Poul William Anderson
Base flat, and this holds good, as remarked by Spengler, even when the specimens are attached to cylindrical pieces of wood.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2)|Charles Darwin
The portrait of the witty and learned Lazarus Spengler dates from the same year.
Durer|M. F. Sweetser
A local doctor, by name Spengler, first noticed this fact about 1865, and the valley soon became famous.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Spengler

Spengler

/ (ˈspɛŋlə, German ˈʃpɛŋlər) /

noun

Oswald (ˈɔsvalt). 1880–1936, German philosopher of history, noted for The Decline of the West (1918–22), which argues that civilizations go through natural cycles of growth and decay

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