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Meaning of "appeaser" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF APPEASER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APPEASER

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Appeaser is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES APPEASER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

appeaser

Appeasement

Appeasement in a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1937 and 1939. His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense debate for seventy years among academics, politicians and diplomats. The historians' assessments have ranged from condemnation for allowing Adolf Hitler's Germany to grow too strong, to the judgment that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests. At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the Munich Pact concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France, and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured "peace for our time."...

Definition of appeaser in the English dictionary

The definition of appeaser in the dictionary is person ready to accede to the demands of a potentially hostile nation in the hope of maintaining peace.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APPEASER


beezer
ˈbiːzə
Caesar
ˈsiːzə
crowd-pleaser
ˈkraʊdpliːzə
easer
ˈiːzə
Ebenezer
ˌɛbəˈniːzə
freezer
ˈfriːzə
fridge-freezer
ˌfrɪdʒˈfriːzə
geezer
ˈɡiːzə
geyser
ˈɡiːzə
Giza
ˈɡiːzə
mestiza
mɛˈstiːzə
Pisa
ˈpiːzə
pleaser
ˈpliːzə
riza
ˈriːzə
squeezer
ˈskwiːzə
teaser
ˈtiːzə
Teresa
təˈriːzə
Theresa
təˈriːzə
tweezer
twiːzə
visa
ˈviːzə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APPEASER

appeachment
appeal
Appeal Court
appeal fund
appealable
appealer
appealing
appealingly
appealingness
appeals tribunal
appear
appearance
appearance fee
appearance money
appearer
appeasable
appease
appeasement
appeasingly
appel

WORDS THAT END LIKE APPEASER

brain-teaser
chaser
cock-teaser
creaser
degreaser
eraser
Fraser
Glaser
increaser
laser
leaser
maser
prick-teaser
purchaser
raser
releaser
skirt-chaser
stripteaser
Taser
timepleaser

Synonyms and antonyms of appeaser in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «appeaser» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APPEASER

Find out the translation of appeaser to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of appeaser from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «appeaser» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

绥靖主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apaciguador
570 millions of speakers

English

appeaser
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

appeaser
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المهدئ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

миротворцем
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apaziguador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

appeaser
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

conciliateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Appeaser
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

appeaser
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

appeaser
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

appeaser
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyuwun pangapunten
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

appeaser
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சமாதான போக்கில் செல்பவராக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आवाहन करणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

savaşa girmemek için taviz verme yanlısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

appeaser
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

appeaser
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

миротворцем
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

appeaser
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εφησυχασμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

appeaser
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

appeaser
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

appeaser
5 millions of speakers

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «APPEASER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about appeaser

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APPEASER»

Discover the use of appeaser in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to appeaser and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Portrait of an Appeaser: Robert Hadow, First Secretary in ...
Studies an appeaser and his thinking in the 1930s.
Lindsay Michie Eades, Lindsay W. Michie, 1996
2
The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat
In particular, it presupposes that the enemy does not really want to go to war, just as the appeaser is doing all he can to avoid war. The appeaser assumes that the enemy must fear him as much as he fears the enemy and that the enemy has ...
Bill Siegel, 2012
3
The Political Psychology of Appeasement: Finlandization and ...
The appeaser is not much alarmed by Soviet advances in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or elsewhere; he is alarmed by the climate of "hysteria" which he believes these advances have engendered in the United States. The Soviet Union, he ...
Walter Laqueur, 1980
4
The Thoughtful Tigre: A Collection of Short Stories
“We're gonna burn for this,” sighed the appeaser. Both he and the hypocrite braced themselves between the floorboards and the bottom of the bell. “ Nonsense,” the sturdy leader retorted, “We shall become heroes, new gods. We are unveiling ...
Tigre Scott, 2005
5
Liberal Crusader: The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair
6. THE. ANTI-APPEASER. On 28 May 1937 Baldwin retired and was replaced as Prime Minister by Neville Chamberlain. Sinclair was certain that the fragile Tory unity would not long survive Baldwin's retirement; Chamberlain, vain and ...
Gerard J. De Groot, 1993
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Politics of the Lesser Evil: Leadership, Democracy, and ...
Karl Kraus was misunderstood as an appeaser of Austro-fascism. Churchill was misunderstood as an appeaser of Stalinism. And even Jaruzelski was misunderstood as an appeaser of Soviet imperialism. Were they really misunderstood?
Anton Pelinka
7
The Third Reich: Charisma and Community
appeaser. Hitler's next move was a surprising non-aggression pact with Poland on 16 January 1934 that marked a radical departure from the pro-Soviet and anti- Polish policy ofthe Weimar Republic since Rapallo. Chancellor Joseph Wirth had  ...
Martin Kitchen, 2014
8
Bruce's History Lessons - The Second Five Years (2006 - 2011)
Neville. Chamberlain: Appeaser. Few people in history have been as reviled by history as the man born this week (March 18) in 1869. Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 until 1940, symbolizes the failed policy of ...
Bruce G. Kauffmann, 2012
9
The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement: British Foreign Policy ...
To be cast as appeaser certainly meant political and career death. This was certainly the case with Chamberlain's last foreign secretary, Lord Halifax, who was demoted to the post of ambassador to Washington by Churchill in 1940.
R. Gerald Hughes, 2014
10
Churchill and Finland: A Study in Anticommunism and Geopolitics
Hoare, a former appeaser, made use of his close relations with Chamberlain to demand that considerable aid be sent swiftly to Finland, even if Britain's own defences were thereby temporarily compromised. Churchill, for his part, used the  ...
Markku Ruotsila, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APPEASER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term appeaser is used in the context of the following news items.
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Book Review: 'Endangered' Tory MEP immerses himself in serious …
... supine western governments, “murderous” Iraqi Prime Minister Nouris al-Maliki, Chamberlainesque appeaser Jack Straw, and so on. «The National, Jul 15»
2
Chris Walsh on the History of Cowardice
... that Lyndon Baynes Johnson in Vietnam, saying, "If I left that war, people would think that I'm a coward, and that my nation is an appeaser. «Foreign Affairs, Jul 15»
3
Iran News Update: U.S. Congress pressuring Obama as Iran talks …
He is not an appeaser of Iran, any more than he is a secret Muslim jihadi. According to Bloomberg's Josh Rogin, Colin Kahl, Vice President Joe ... «iFreePress.com, Jul 15»
4
Jim Webb's résumé: a Democrat who out-Reagans the entire …
Vietnam vet and Pennsylvania Representative Jack Murtha is labeled a "defeatist and appeaser." Nuclear submarine commander Jimmy Carter ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Climate Truths Defended in Conference Keynote Addresses
An appeaser is someone who feeds his friends to the alligators, hoping they will eat him last. ... And those who cried, 'appease, appease' are ... «The Heartland Institute, Jul 15»
6
America is addicted to war: Terror, drugs and the existential threats …
Anyone who suggests otherwise is labeled a dreamer, an appeaser, or even a traitor. War, in short, is the great simplifier — and it may even ... «Salon, Jul 15»
7
No need to rush to a deal on nukes with Iran
He is not an appeaser of Iran, any more than he is a secret Muslim jihadi. But he should not stumble now, in haste. Above all, the International ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
8
Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon - Robert Scheer on Reality …
I asked George McGovern, I said, why didn't you bring up your war record in a vigorous way when you were being attacked as this appeaser? «The Real News Network, Jun 15»
9
America's Got War
Violence becomes the means of decision, total victory the goal. Anyone who suggests otherwise is labeled a dreamer, an appeaser, or even a ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
10
Appeasing the ayatollahs and suppressing democracy
Doing less, Washington may find itself at the end of the line of Churchill's adage that an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will ... «The Hill, Jun 15»

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