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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LANDAMMANN

Swiss German, from Land country + Ammann, from Amt office + Mannman.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LANDAMMANN

landammann  [ˈlændəmən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LANDAMMANN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Landammann 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 LANDAMMANN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Landammann

Landammann or Landaman, plural -männer, meaning Bureaucrat for the land, is the German title used by the chief magistrate in certain Cantons of Switzerland and at times featured in the Head of state's style at the confederal level. The French version is Landamman, the Italian Landamano If the office is held by a woman, she is addressed as Frau Landammann.

Definition of landammann in the English dictionary

The definition of landammann in the dictionary is the chairman of the governing council in any of several Swiss cantons.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LANDAMMANN


abdomen
ˈæbdəmən
airman
ˈɛəmən
alderman
ˈɔːldəmən
ataman
ˈætəmən
cardamom
ˈkɑːdəmən
cardamon
ˈkɑːdəmən
chairman
ˈtʃɛəmən
cinnamon
ˈsɪnəmən
Doberman
ˈdəʊbəmən
Dobermann
ˈdəʊbəmən
ealdorman
ˈɔːldəmən
fireman
ˈfaɪəmən
fisherman
ˈfɪʃəmən
letterman
ˈlɛtəmən
Lindemann
ˈlɪndəmən
ottoman
ˈɒtəmən
Solomon
ˈsɒləmən
spearman
ˈspɪəmən
underman
ˌʌndəmən
waterman
ˈwɔːtəmən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LANDAMMANN

land yacht
land-damne
land-holder
land-holding
land-office business
land-poor
land-poor farmer
land-wind
Land´s End
landamman
landau
landaulet
landaulette
landboard
landboarding
Landdros
Landdrost
lande
landed
landed gentry

WORDS THAT END LIKE LANDAMMANN

Beckmann
Boltzmann
Bormann
Bultmann
Eichmann
Hauptmann
Haussmann
Hermann
Hofmann
Kauffmann
Lehmann
Lippmann
Luhrmann
Neumann
Riemann
Schumann
Stresemann
Telemann
von Neumann
Weizmann

Synonyms and antonyms of landammann in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «landammann» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LANDAMMANN

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

Translator English - Chinese

landammann
1,325 millions of speakers

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Landammann
570 millions of speakers

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landammann
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

landammann
380 millions of speakers
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landammann
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

landammann
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Landammann
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

landammann
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

landamman
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Landammann
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Landammann
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

landammann
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

landammann
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Landammann
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

landammann
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

landammann
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लँडडमॅन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Landammann
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Landammann
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Landammann
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

landammann
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

landammann
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Landammann
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

landammann
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Landammann
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Landammann
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of landammann

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LANDAMMANN»

The term «landammann» is normally little used and occupies the 130.321 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LANDAMMANN» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANDAMMANN»

Discover the use of landammann in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to landammann and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Amtliche Sammlung Der Ältern Eidgenössischen Abschiede
Landammann; Anton Schmid. Sekelmeifter; Hauptmann Martin Epp. des Raths. S ch w hz. Sebaftian Büeler. Landammann; Rudolf Reding. Ritter. alt-Landammann ; Balthafar Khd. Ritter. Sekelmeifter; Joft Ulrich. Landesfähnrich und des Raths.
‎1872
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Die Eidgenössischen Abschiede
Carl TbaddäuS Schmid, Landammann; Carl Franz Schmid, alt Landammann. Schwvz. Joseph Maria Carl Dominik Iütz, Landammann; Joseph Victor Laurenz Hedlinger, alt Landammann. Obwalden. Johann Melchior Bucher, Landammann;  ...
‎1856
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British and Foreign State Papers
Au nom du Canton de Schwgtz. F. X. W.EBER. Landammann régnant. JOACHIM SCHMID, Landammann. Au nom du Canton d' Unterwalden le Ham. (RECONNU COMME ÉTAT CONFÉDÉRÉ.) J. IGNACE STOCKMANN, Landammann, ...
‎1838
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The Athenian Ecclesia: A Collection of Articles 1976-1983
The Landammann asks first the supporters and ca. 15 seconds later the opponents of a proposal to raise their hands. The hands are never counted. It is simply impossible, and if it had been possible it would have been too time consuming.
Mogens Herman Hansen, 1983
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The Camridge Modern History
This " directorial " canton was known as the Vorort ; and its first magistrate became Landammann of Switzerland. The powers of the Landammann were restricted ; he had the general management of foreign affairs, opened and presided over ...
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Athenian Democracy
The Landammann asks first the supporters and ca. 15 seconds later the opponents of a proposal to raise their hands. The hands are never counted. It is simply impossible, and if it had been possible it would have been too time consuming.
Peter John Rhodes, 2004
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Consensus democracy?: Swiss education policy between ...
... Schultheiss CP UR Regierungsrat 7 4 M F Landammann M SZ Regierungsrat 7 4 M F Landammann CP OW Regierungsrat 7 .4 ML F Landammann ML NW Regierungsrat 9 4 ML P Landammann ML GL Regierungsrat 7 4 M F Landammann ...
Gunther M. Hega, 1999
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A glance at some of the beauties and sublimities of ...
A rampart, flanked by massive towers, which formed the abutment of a street, being undermined by the waters of the lake, was engulfed, and sixty persons, including the Landammann, together with the archives «jf the city, were swallowed up.
John Murray, 1829
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A Laboratory of Liberty: The Transformation of Political ...
59 stasz akten 1, 508 An Landammann und Rath zu handen des Volkes löblichen Bezirkes Schwyz, 18 december 1830; article 5 of “uebereinkunft,” in Sammlung, ed. Kothing, 105. stasz akten 1, 508 Da die löbl. Bezirke March, Einsiedeln ...
Marc Lerner, 2011
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Pictures of German Life in XVth, XVIth, XVIIth, XVIIIth and ...
"From the feeling excited by these circumstances, I went soon after to the Landammann, and lamented the harshness of the proceeding. The men should have been summoned, none of them would have failed to appear, they were not such as ...
Gustav Freytag

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LANDAMMANN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term landammann is used in the context of the following news items.
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Die Schlagzeilen der Sonntagspresse im Banne der Zahlen
Am Abend zuvor war sie zusammen mit dem Zuger SVP-Präsidenten Markus Hürlimann an der Feier für den neuen Landammann gesehen ... «swissinfo.ch, Dec 14»
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First Rizal Park inaugurated in Switzerland
Baja and Canton Uri Landammann (President) Dr. Heidi Z'graggen unveiled the Rizal bust which was donated by the Philippine National ... «ABS CBN News, Sep 14»
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Appenzell marks 500 years of Swissness
The current landammann of Ausser Rhoden happens to be a woman too, Marianne Koller-Bohl. “Perhaps it was like a spring awakening, when ... «swissinfo.ch, Dec 13»

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