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Meaning of "East Germany" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EAST GERMANY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EAST GERMANY

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
East Germany 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 EAST GERMANY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

East Germany

East Germany

East Germany, formally the German Democratic Republic or GDR, was a nominally sovereign state within the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period. From 1949 to 1990, it administered the region of Germany which was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of the Second World War—the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder-Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin, but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the control of the GDR. The German Democratic Republic was established in the Soviet Zone, while the Federal Republic was established in the three western zones. The East was often described as a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to German communist leaders in 1948, and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 October 1949. Soviet forces, however, remained in the country throughout the Cold War to counter the heavy US military presence in the West.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EAST GERMANY

East China Sea
east coast fever
East Dunbartonshire
East End
East Ender
East Europe
East European
East Flanders
East German
East Germanic
East India Company
East Indian
East Indies
East Kilbride
East London
East Lothian
East Malaysia
East Pakistan
East Pakistani
East Prussia

WORDS THAT END LIKE EAST GERMANY

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Albany
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Bethany
Brittany
company
Federal Republic of Germany
Germany
holding company
many
not having any
one-many
overmany
Romany
start-up company
Tammany
the many
tiffany
trading company
West Germany

Synonyms and antonyms of East Germany in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «East Germany» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EAST GERMANY

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

Translator English - Chinese

东德
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Alemania del Este
570 millions of speakers

English

East Germany
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्वी जर्मनी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ألمانيا الشرقية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Восточная Германия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Alemanha Oriental
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পূর্ব জার্মানি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Allemagne de l´Est
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jerman Timur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ost-Deutschland
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

東ドイツ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동독
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jerman Timur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Đông Đức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிழக்கு ஜெர்மனி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्व जर्मनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Doğu Almanya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Germania Est
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Niemcy Wschodnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Східна Німеччина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Germania de Est
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ανατολική Γερμανία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Oos-Duitsland
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Östtysk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

øst-Tyskland
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of East Germany

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EAST GERMANY»

The term «East Germany» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.621 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EAST GERMANY» OVER TIME

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

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4 QUOTES WITH «EAST GERMANY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word East Germany.
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Apparat
I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner of a turntable.
2
Kim Dae Jung
You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.
3
Katarina Witt
I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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Tom Wlaschiha
I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EAST GERMANY»

Discover the use of East Germany in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to East Germany and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
The definitive history of the powerful and brutal East German Secret Police
John O. Koehler, 1999
2
Representing East Germany since unification: from ...
Taking culture as broadly defined, this book examines state memorialization, literature, television, film, and the internet, to map out the problematic path of German national identity as it struggles to deal with the legacy of division.
Paul Cooke, 2005
3
Uprising in East Germany, 1953: The Cold War, the German ...
The first documented account of this early Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. This collection of primary-source documents presents one of the most notorious events of postwar European history in a highly readable format.
Christian F. Ostermann, Malcolm Byrne, 2001
4
East Germany and the Escape: Kitchen Table Memoirs
The true story of Alfred Kienitz set in East Germany - before, during and after WW2 - tells of many hardships suffered during those times.
Doris Kienitz, 2011
5
Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany
This book is a representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, examining both DEFA's celebrated classics and the most acclaimed post-unification feature films by East German directors.
Daniela Berghahn, 2005
6
Politics and Popular Opinion in East Germany, 1945-68
This groundbreaking work examines East Germany's postwar development from the defeat of Nazism to the stabilization of a new socialist state by 1968.
Mark Allinson, 2000
7
Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A wonderfully evocative memoir. . .
Joel Agee, 2000
8
The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany
An examination of the roots of the reunification of Germany, arguing that Erich Honecker's rigid communist regime was undermined by the conflict between Moscow and East Berlin.
Jeffrey Gedmin, 1992
9
Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany: The ...
In this volume, Steven Pfaff identifies the central mechanisms that propelled the extraordinary and surprisingly bloodless revolution within the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Steven Pfaff, 2006
10
The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in ...
The Currency of Socialism offers a novel explanation for the collapse of communism in East Germany and a highly original interpretation of German unification.
Jonathan R. Zatlin, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EAST GERMANY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term East Germany is used in the context of the following news items.
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Germany's eurosceptic AfD party faces split as Lucke quits
... Lucke, a 52-year-old Hamburg-based economics professor, and a group of populist challengers from the former Communist East Germany. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
Manda believed he was born to lead
An East Germany-trained urologist, Dr Manda's role models happened to be Dr Martin Luther King Jr and President John F. Kennedy of the ... «Zambia Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Merkel Can't Escape Greece's Geopolitical Pull in Balkans
As a student in East Germany, Angela Merkel would travel by train south through the Balkans and gaze over to Greece, wondering when she ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
4
Peace Lessons
... occupation in the Ruhr region in the 1920s, and nonviolence would later remove a ruthless dictator from power in East Germany in 1989. «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
5
Russia, Ukraine and US Hegemony
... agreement to accede to the reunification of West and East Germany but under condition that NATO would not expand “one inch” to the east. «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
6
Ma Henning named to Canadian Country Music Hall
The savvy businesswoman immigrated to Canada from East Germany in 1950. She worked in the medical field and then as a real estate agent ... «Brandon Sun, Jul 15»
7
East German population to plunge by 2030
Saxony-Anhalt will lose 13.6 percent of its inhabitants while the population of Thuringia, another state in former East Germany, will fall by 9.9 ... «The Local.de, Jul 15»
8
Bridge of Spies trailer: watch Tom Hanks in Spielberg's cold war thriller
This acts as a prologue to the main event: Donovan's trip to East Germany under the diplomatic radar. This is partly explained by the clear ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
Celebrating Germany's improbable run to glory at Italia '90
West Germany had to win at home against Wales to finish as one of the best runners-up, while East Germany only needed a draw in Vienna ... «ESPN FC, Jul 15»
10
What Greek, and German, history can teach us about today's crisis
If Greeks see themselves as victims, so do Germans, who have picked up the bill to rescue East Germany well within living memory and widely ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. East Germany [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/east-germany>. Apr 2024 ».
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