Kader
German
Etymology
Borrowed from French cadre.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
Kader n or m (genitive Kaders, plural Kader)
- (sports) squad (body of the players of a team or club)
- (military) cadre (body of officers forming a new regiment)
- (Marxism) cadre (the ideologically trained elite, which is to fill all public and economic leadership positions)
- (Marxism, more commonly) cadre; leader (an individual in the above elite)
- (figuratively) a highly skilled or highly motivated person or group of persons
Usage notes
The neuter gender is used alongside the masculine gender in Swiss German.
Declension
Template:de-decl-noun-n Template:de-decl-noun-m
Derived terms
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kader”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Further reading
- “Kader” in Duden online
Luxembourgish
Noun
Kader m (plural Kaderen)
- frame (of windows and doors)
- frame (of a picture)
- frame (of a bicycle)
- (sports) squad (body of the players of a team or club)
- workload, job
Synonyms
- (frame): Rumm f
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