Definitions for Landwehr

Landwehr Land·wehr

Spelling: [lahnt-veyr]
IPA: /ˈlɑntˌveɪr/

Landwehr is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 283 anagrams from letters in Landwehr (adehlnrw).

Definitions for Landwehr

noun

  1. (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.

Origin of Landwehr

1805-15; German, equivalent to Land country, land + Wehr defense; see weir

Examples for Landwehr

Something, too, is perhaps attributable to the more advanced ages of the Landwehr.

He has also written on the German Landwehr, of which he is no partisan.

But if the Landwehr is gone, there are yet remaining troops enough of the line.

The officer of the Landwehr attempted to withdraw from the hand that held him.

Thus began the new and enormous movement of Landwehr army corps into France.

The sentry was an oldish man, of the Landwehr, and entirely unsuspicious.

In Austria the Landwehr is a totally different organization.

Frankly, some of the figures of the stout Landwehr men frighten us.

They are the best contrast to the volunteers of the Landwehr.

Of Germany's corps of Landwehr, by far the greater number were embodied during these weeks of September.

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