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Meaning of "landammann" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LANDAMMANN

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

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF LANDAMMANN

ˈlændəmən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LANDAMMANN

noun
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Landammann is a noun.
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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 · airman · alderman · ataman · cardamom · cardamon · chairman · cinnamon · Doberman · Dobermann · ealdorman · fireman · fisherman · letterman · Lindemann · ottoman · Solomon · spearman · underman · waterman

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

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Translation of «landammann» into 25 languages

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANDAMMANN»

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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»

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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»
REFERENCE
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