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GORING

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Overview

GORING (noun)
  The noun GORING has 1 sense:

1. German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)play

  Familiarity information: GORING used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


GORING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Goering; Goring; Hermann Goering; Hermann Goring; Hermann Wilhelm Goring

Instance hypernyms:

German Nazi; Nazi (a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party)


 Context examples 


The memory of that unfortunate king and his companions, the amiable Falkland, the insolent Goring, his queen, and son, gave a peculiar interest to every part of the city which they might be supposed to have inhabited.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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