CDU

English

Noun

CDU (plural CDUs)

1. (petrochemistry) Initialism of crude distillation unit.

Proper noun

CDU

1. (German politics) Initialism of Christian Democratic Union (of Germany) (“Christlich Demokratische Union”). (a major mainstream German political party)
   • 2025 February 24, Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, “Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “I am certain that this so-called ‘firewall’ will stop after this election,” AfD youth wing leader Hannes Gnauck told CNN Sunday evening. He added, “There will be a CDU after Friedrich Merz, and this CDU will have to work together with the AfD.”

Coordinate terms

Christlich Demokratische Union

• AfD
• CSU
• FDP
• SPD

Translations

Christlich Demokratische Union

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基民盟 (Jīmínméng), 基民黨 / 基民党 (Jīmíndǎng)

• German: CDU (de) f, Christlich Demokratische Union f

Anagrams

• ucd, duc, CUD, UCD, DCU, UDC, cud

Dutch

Proper noun

CDU f

1. (politics) Christen-Democraten Unie - the Union of Christian Democrats (a Dutch political party that existed from 1964 till 1982)

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

CDU f (proper noun, genitive CDU)

1. (German politics) CDU: Initialism of Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (“Christian Democratic Union of Germany”).

Usage notes

• There are several compounds like: CDU-Abgeordneter, CDU-Bundesvorstand, CDU-Fraktion, CDU-Parteivorstand, CDU-Politiker, CDU-Spendenaffäre.

Declension

Declension of CDU [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	CDU
genitive	einer	der	CDU
dative	einer	der	CDU
accusative	eine	die	CDU

Hypernyms

• Partei

Coordinate terms

Christlich Demokratische Union

• AfD
• CSU
• FDP
• SPD

Derived terms

• CDUler

Descendants

• → English: CDU

See also

• JU
• Schwarzgeldaffäre