Definitions for Gesellschaft

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Gesellschaft ge·sell·schaft

Spelling: [German guh-zel-shahft]

IPA: /German gəˈzɛlˌʃɑft/

Gesellschaft is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 802 anagrams from letters in Gesellschaft (aceefghllsst).

Definitions for Gesellschaft

noun

1. an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
2. Sociology. a society or group characterized chiefly by formal organization, impersonal relations, the absence of generally held or binding norms, and a detachment from traditional and sentimental concerns, and often tending to be rationalistic and secular in outlook.

Origin of Gesellschaft

1935-40; German, equivalent to Geselle companion + -schaft -ship

Examples for Gesellschaft

Too modest to publish his compositions, he willed them to the archives of the gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.

Mittheilungen der vorderasiatischen gesellschaft, 1907, p. 23.

In the library of the gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna.

Schindler somewhere censures the gesellschaft der Musikfreunde for its long delay in making Beethoven an honorary member.

Another society of note was the still existing and flourishing gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.

Translated from the Mitteilungen der vorderasiatischen gesellschaft, 1902, Heft 1, p. 8.

The autograph is preserved by the gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

In the Mitteilungen der vorderasiatischen gesellschaft, 1899, Heft.

So Pohl, who wrote a history of the gesellschaft, informed Thayer in a note.

gesellschaft (Berlin, 1906) and Religionsgeschichtlicher u. gesch.