herrenvolk
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See also: Herrenvolk
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Herrenvolk, from Herr (“lord, master, gentleman”) + -en- + Volk (“folk, people”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɛɹənfəʊk/, /ˈhɛɹənfɒlk/, enPR: hĕrʹən-fōk, hĕrʹən-fŏlk
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɛɹənfoʊk/, /ˈhɛɹənfɔlk/, enPR: hĕrʹən-fōk, hĕrʹən-fôlk
- Hyphenation: her‧ren‧volk
Noun
[edit]herrenvolk (plural herrenvolks or herrenvolker)
- A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology. [from 20th c.]
- 1995 [1954], Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, page 59:
- In their position halfway between the blacks and the white Herrenvolk, they are bound to be unstable, they are petty bourgeois to the core, all of them.
- 2003, George M. Fredrickson, The Historical Construction of Race and Citizenship in the United States[1], page 14:
- The political system that was emerging has been aptly described as a 'Herrenvolk democracy', a formally democratic political system in which voting and office holding is limited to members of a dominant ethno-racial group.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]master race — see master race