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PRONUNCIATION OF HERRENVOLK

Herrenvolk  [ˈhɛrənfɔlk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HERRENVOLK

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Herrenvolk 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 HERRENVOLK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Herrenvolk

Master race

The master race (German: die Herrenrasse, das Herrenvolk (help·info)) is a concept in Nazi ideology in which the Nordic race—a branch of what in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century taxonomy was called the Aryan race—represented an ideal and pure white race. In Nazi ideology the Nordic race was the purest example of the original racial stock of those who were then called the Proto-Aryans, whom the Nazis believed to have prehistorically dwelt on the North German Plain and to have ultimately originated from the lost continent of Atlantis. The Nazis declared that the Nordics (nowadays referred to as the Germanic peoples), were the true Aryans (ethnically closest descendants of the Proto-Indo-Europeans) because they were much less racially mixed with peoples who were "non-native" to the European continent, than other Indo-European peoples, such as the Slavic peoples, the Romanic peoples, and the Indo-Iranian peoples. From all of the European peoples, the Slavs (particularly Poles and Serbs) were considered the most racially inferior, and were placed at the bottom of the "racial hierarchy" along with Jews, Romani people and persons of color.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HERRENVOLK

Herr
Herren
Herrick
herriment
herring
herring boat
herring gull
herring-pond
herringbone
herringbone bond
herringbone gear
herringbone pattern
herringbone stitch
herringer
Herriot
herry
hers
Herschel

WORDS THAT END LIKE HERRENVOLK

country folk
egg yolk
fisherfolk
folk
gentlefolk
hillfolk
holk
kinfolk
kinsfolk
little folk
menfolk
merfolk
Norfolk
Polk
Suffolk
townsfolk
volk
womenfolk
workfolk
yolk

Synonyms and antonyms of Herrenvolk in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Herrenvolk» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HERRENVOLK

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The translations of Herrenvolk from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Herrenvolk» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Herrenvolk
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Herrenvolk
570 millions of speakers

English

Herrenvolk
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Herrenvolk
380 millions of speakers
ar

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Herrenvolk
280 millions of speakers

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Herrenvolk
278 millions of speakers

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Herrenvolk
270 millions of speakers

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Herrenvolk
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Herrenvolk
220 millions of speakers

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Herrenvolk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Herrenvolk
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Herrenvolk
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Herrenvolk
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Herrenvolk
85 millions of speakers
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Herrenvolk
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Herrenvolk
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Herrenvolk
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Herrenvolk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Herrenvolk
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Herrenvolk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Herrenvolk
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Herrenvolk
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Herrenvolk
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Herrenvolk
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Herrenvolk
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Herrenvolk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Herrenvolk

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HERRENVOLK»

The term «Herrenvolk» is normally little used and occupies the 132.384 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HERRENVOLK» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HERRENVOLK»

Discover the use of Herrenvolk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Herrenvolk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race
7. White. Right. The. Idea. of. a. Herrenvolk. Ethics. Discussions of race in ethical theory have usually focused on such issues as the clarification of the distinctive wrongness of racism and the adjudication of the moral pros and cons of ...
Charles Wade Mills, 1998
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Croatia: Ludwig von Gaj and the Croats are Herrenvolk Goths ...
HERRENVOLK. GOTHS. C. ROAT PRIMACIES IN the New World are not surprising if one takes into consideration certain 'undeniable' truths about Croats uncovered by Croatia's best and brightest generation, i.e., if one understands that  ...
Ivo Vukcevich
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From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism
global Herrenvolk, rulers of colonies and founders of colonial settler states inhabited by an aboriginal and slave population. White supremacy is then established as a system in which one's identity as a settler, a member of the Herrenvolk, ...
Charles Wade Mills, 2003
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Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian ...
I adapt this term from the sociologist Pierre van den Berghe's description of white settler states such as the United States, Australia, and South Africa as " Herrenvolk democracies," polities that are democratic for the master race, the Herrenvolk, ...
Jane Kneller, Sidney Axinn, 1998
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Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror
The new word soon replaced the older term "amalgamation" in the virulent political rhetoric denouncing the impending "mongrelization" of the United States. 18 In The Wages of Whiteness, Roediger paraphrases the concept of herrenvolk  ...
Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, 1997
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American ...
Technically the latter remained 'freemen', but the new constitution limited voting to 'white freemen'.66 The case of Pennsylvania illustrates the problem of applying the much- debated term herrenvolk democracy to goals of the militant popular ...
David R. Roediger, 1999
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The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War
This secessionist prophecy undermined two classic interpretations of the Old South: the Great Reaction/Closed Society interpretation and the Herrenvolk interpretation. Almost all southern historians thought, and I had argued in my nullification ...
William W. Freehling, 1994
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Herrenvolk
"Herrenvolk" is the season four premiere of The X-Files. While Mulder and Jeremiah Smith attempt to uncover the truth, the Syndicate realizes that they have a traitor in their midst. "Herrenvolk" means "Master Race" in German.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
9
Democracy and Trust
In this "primal herrenvolk democracy," the image of liberty defined in opposition to slavery became paramount, as did, eventually, a distrust of government, both of which helped align Southern democracy with laissez-faire capitalism and ...
Mark E. Warren, 1999
10
The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes
farm in “Herrenvolk.” After all, the telephone worker in “Herrenvolk” dies after a single sting, and fewer than twenty-four hours later his face is covered in pox marks and blisters (similar but not identical to those shown in “Zero Sum”). And Smith ...
Phil Farrand, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HERRENVOLK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Herrenvolk is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Question of a US form of fascism
It approximates what Pierre Van den Berghe pointed out in 1967 in his discussion of white racism, and which he called “herrenvolk democracy” ... «Bay Area Indymedia, Jun 15»
2
Outrageous Attempt at Killing the Deal with Iran
But US political extremists and maximalists with what resembles a Herrenvolk's mentality continue to treat Iran, the nuclear issue and the safety ... «Dissident Voice, Jun 15»
3
Dylann Roof Is Not Alone: Racism Persists Across Generations
Dylann Roof also wore the emblems of hate on a jacket, the flags of the dead Herrenvolk white supremacist apartheid countries of South Africa ... «Scoop.co.nz, Jun 15»
4
The Latest and Maybe the Last, “Existential Threat”
... that the majority of Palestinians remaining in the Promised Land will up and go, ceding the entirety of Mandate Palestine to the Herrenvolk. «CounterPunch, Jun 15»
5
The Office Can Be as Hostile as the Hood
In a society that privileges whiteness as Herrenvolk--the master race, the white mind and society at large has been socialized to associate ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
6
Black America is so very tired of explaining and debating
Could it be that, perhaps, and despite all of the obstacles and pain inflicted upon them by a racialized and broken Herrenvolk pseudo ... «Salon, Jun 15»
7
Rivlin to announce 'joint Israeli society' — and try to curb Palestinian …
As a temporary measure for the 1940es, to be diluted to insignificance by successive Herrenvolk immigration. Judging by the action of both ... «Mondoweiss, Jun 15»
8
America Breaks the Middle East
... and they thought that the regimes they wanted to install throughout the Middle East would identify enough with Israel's Herrenvolk democracy ... «CounterPunch, May 15»
9
Remembering VE Day
... on the unprompted confessions of Germany's latest leaders in their addresses to their prostrate people, the fallen and frustrated herrenvolk. «Spectator.co.uk, May 15»
10
The German question
Welcome, then, to Herrenvolk democracy - the “democracy of the master people.” Todd bolsters his case by pointing to the dynamism of the ... «Panorama.am, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Herrenvolk [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/herrenvolk>. May 2024 ».
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