REICH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Reich mean? 

• REICH (noun)
  The noun REICH has 3 senses:

1. the German state

2. Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)

3. United States composer (born in 1936)

  Familiarity information: REICH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REICH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The German state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Reich" is a kind of...):

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Reich"):

Hohenzollern empire; Second Reich (the Reich when Hohenzollern monarchs ruled Germany (from 1871 to 1919))

Nazi Germany; Third Reich (the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Reich; Wilhelm Reich

Instance hypernyms:

analyst; psychoanalyst (a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States composer (born in 1936)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Reich; Stephen Michael Reich; Steve Reich

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

 Context examples 

The more chronic active lesions a patient has the greater the chances they will experience this type of MS, said Daniel S. Reich, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)