Definitions for Junkers

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Junkers Jun·kers

Spelling: [yoo ng-kuh rs]

IPA: /ˈyʊŋ kərs/

Junkers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in Junkers (ejknrsu).

Definitions for Junkers

noun

1. Hugo [hoo-gaw] /ˈhu gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1935, German aircraft designer and builder.
2. a car that is old, worn out, or in bad enough repair to be scrapped.
3. a member of a class of aristocratic landholders, especially in East Prussia, strongly devoted to militarism and authoritarianism, from among whom the German military forces recruited a large number of its officers.
4. a young German, especially Prussian, nobleman.
5. a German official or military officer who is narrow-minded, haughty, and overbearing.

Origin of Junkers

1880-85, Americanism, for an earlier sense; junk¹ + -er¹

Examples for Junkers

I loved to look at his open brow; it was so like our bravest German Junkers.

I am not afraid of the Junkers here,—I have spirits,—but the Germans at home have no spirits.

But your Junkers and other jingoes neither wavered nor hesitated.

"Junkers, right enough," Dawson repeated with a nod of his head.

The Junkers and the Government knew that they had no reason to dread a renewal of 1848.

Like Amanda's, Mrs. Twist's life had been up to this empty of Junkers.

From nose to tail the Junkers became no more than a moving ball of fire.

They were clamorously back of the Junkers in their demands for war.

The Junkers were slow and low-powered, not being able to exceed 170 miles per hour.

It was as though they both intended to fly right straight into the Junkers.