Uniform

See also: uniform

Translingual

Uniform (sense 1)
Uniform (sense 2)
Uniform (sense 3)

Alternative forms

• uniform, UNIFORM

Etymology

Borrowed from English uniform.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjunifɔm]; acceptable variant: [ˈunifɔm]

Noun

Uniform

2. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter U.
4. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter U.
6. (time zone) UTC−08:00

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codesedit

• Alfa
• Bravo
• Charlie
• decimal
• Delta
• Echo
• eight
• five (“fife”)
• four (“fower”)
• Foxtrot
• Golf
• Hotel
• hundred
• India
• Juliett
• Kilo
• Lima
• Mike
• nine (“niner”)
• November
• one
• Oscar
• Papa
• Quebec
• Romeo
• seven
• Sierra
• six
• Tango
• thousand
• three (“tree”)
• two
• Uniform
• Victor
• Whiskey
• Xray
• Yankee
• zero
• Zulu

Translations

the letter "U" in a national spelling alphabet

• Bulgarian: Юниформ (Juniform)
• Czech: Urban (cs)
• English: Uncle
• Estonian: Uuno (et)
• Finnish: Urho (fi)
• Italian: Udine (it)
• Swedish: Urban (sv) (proper noun (name))
• Turkish: Uşak (tr) (proper noun (name)), Ünye (tr) (For letter "ü")

German

Uniform

Etymology

Borrowed from French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊniˌfɔʁm/ (most common)
• IPA^(key): /ˌʊniˈfɔʁm/, /ˌuːniˈfɔʁm/ (variants)
• IPA^(key): /ˈuːniˌfɔʁm/ (rare, at least in Germany)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Uniform f (genitive Uniform, plural Uniformen)

1. uniform (distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group)

Usage notes

• Some speakers who stress the word on the first syllable in the singular may nevertheless put the stress on the third syllable in the plural (meaning that there is a stress shift like that in Autor, Charakter, etc.).

Declension

Declension of Uniform [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Uniform	die	Uniformen
genitive	einer	der	Uniform	der	Uniformen
dative	einer	der	Uniform	den	Uniformen
accusative	eine	die	Uniform	die	Uniformen

Descendants

• → Kashubian: ùnifòrm

Further reading

• “Uniform” in Duden online
• “Uniform”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)