Gesellschaft
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Gesellschaft, from Geselle + -schaft. Compare to English gemeinschaft
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Gesellschaft (plural Gesellschaften or Gesellschafts)
- (sociology) a hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft
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1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional Gesellschaft being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires.
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German gesellescaft, from Old High German giselliscaft. Equivalent to Geselle + -schaft.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Gesellschaft f (genitive Gesellschaft, plural Gesellschaften)
- society, community
- 1932, Erich Mühsam, Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat, in: Erich Mühsam: Prosaschriften II, Verlag europäische ideen Berlin (1978), page 253:
- Immer wieder hören wir die Frage von Personen, denen die Gedankenwelt des Anarchismus nicht vertraut ist: Was wollt ihr eigentlich? Wie stellt ihr euch eine Gesellschaft ohne Staat und Obrigkeit vor?
- Again and again we hear the question from people who are not familiar with the world of ideas of anarchism: What do you actually want? How do you imagine a society without state and authorities?
- Immer wieder hören wir die Frage von Personen, denen die Gedankenwelt des Anarchismus nicht vertraut ist: Was wollt ihr eigentlich? Wie stellt ihr euch eine Gesellschaft ohne Staat und Obrigkeit vor?
- 1932, Erich Mühsam, Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat, in: Erich Mühsam: Prosaschriften II, Verlag europäische ideen Berlin (1978), page 253:
- (business) company
Declension[edit]
Declension of Gesellschaft
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Gesellschaft | die | Gesellschaften |
genitive | einer | der | Gesellschaft | der | Gesellschaften |
dative | einer | der | Gesellschaft | den | Gesellschaften |
accusative | eine | die | Gesellschaft | die | Gesellschaften |
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Gesellschaft in Duden online
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