High Society
Appearance
See also: high society
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English high society.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]High Society f (genitive High Society, no plural)
- high society
- Synonym: Hautevolee
- 2022 July 12, Bettina Maria Brosowsky, “Hanseatische Polychromie”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[2], →ISSN, page 28:
- Farbig bauen? So etwas war der Hamburger High Society meistens denn doch zu bunt.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]- The Duden prescribes that unadapted borrowings from English consisting of an adjective and a noun (that carries the stress) be written spaced (High Society). The hyphenated (High-Society) and solid (Highsociety) spellings are proscribed.[1]
Declension
[edit]Declension of High Society [sg-only, feminine]
References
[edit]- ^ “Schreibung von Fremdwörtern aus dem Englischen [Spelling of loan words from English]”, in Duden[1] (in German), Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, (Can we date this quote?), archived from the original on 2023-01-20
Further reading
[edit]- “High Society” in Duden online
- “High Society” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache