| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Anschluss |
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| SYLLABICATION: | An·schluss |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  än shl s |
| NOUN: | A political union, especially the one unifying Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938. | | ETYMOLOGY: | German, annexation, from anschliessen, to enclose, annex : an, on (from Middle High German ane, from Old High German ana; see an- in Appendix I) + schliessen, to close (from Middle High German sliezen, from Old High German sliozan).
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