Main Entry: Na·zi
Pronunciation: 'nät-sE, 'nat-sE
Function: noun
Etymology: German, by shortening & alteration
from "Nationalsozialist," from national (national) + Sozialist (socialist)
Date: 1930
1 : a member of a German fascist party controlling
Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler
2 often not capitalized : one who resembles a German Nazi
- nazi adjective, often capitalized
- na·zi·fi·ca·tion /"nät-si-f&-'kA-sh&n, "nat-/ noun, often capitalized
- na·zi·fy /'nät-si-"fI, 'nat-/ transitive verb, often capitalized