German–English dictionary

Großbrand

A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

großbritannisch

(historical) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.

Größe

The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.

große Geste

A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

große Liebe

(idiomatic, by extension) The thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest; one's most fundamental interest or attachment.

Großeltern

The parent of someone's parent.

Großelternteil

The parent of someone's parent.

großen Erfolg haben

(intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.

Größenordnung

(US, figuratively) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation.

größenwahnsinnig

Of, exhibiting, or affected with megalomania.

Größenwahnsinnige

One affected with or exhibiting megalomania.

Größenwahnsinniger

One affected with or exhibiting megalomania.

großer Schluck

(informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.

großer Teich

(informal) Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.

größer werden

(intransitive, literary) To greaten.

Großer Zapfenstreich

(military) A military display or pageant.

größere Kreise erreichen

(transitive) To reach further than.

größere Wichtigkeit

An item's relative importance.

großes Verlangen

A wistful or melancholy longing.

Großfahndung

An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

großformatig

In the format of a broadsheet.

großgeschrieben

Written in upper case; capital.

Großhandel

Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.

Großhändler

A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.

großherzig

Noble, kind and generous.

Großherzigkeit

The quality of being magnanimous; kindness of nature; generosity.

Grossherzog

A grand duke.

Grosskatze

(archaic, countable) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.

Großkopferter

(informal) A person of importance in a group or organization.

großkotzig

Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.

Großmacht

(international relations) A state that has the ability to exert its influence on a global scale.

Grossmaul

(Canada, US, derogatory) A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. [from c. 1840]

Großmufti

(countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.

Großmut

(uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time.

großmütig

Noble, kind and generous.

Großmütigkeit

The quality of being magnanimous; kindness of nature; generosity.

Großmutter

A mother of someone's parent.

Großmütterchen

A mother of someone's parent.

Großmütterlein

A mother of someone's parent.

Großmutti

(colloquial) A grandmother.

Großnilhecht

An electric fish of species Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa.

Großrechner

(computer hardware) A large, powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with very many connected terminals; used by large, complex organizations (such as banks and supermarkets) where continuously sustained operation is vital.

großschreiben

(transitive) In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.

Großsegel

(nautical) The largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel.

Großsohn

A son of one's child.

großspurig

Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.

großspurig handeln

(transitive) Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc. [from 1550s.]

Großspurigkeit

Empty boasting.

Großstag

(nautical) A stabilising rope from high on the mainmast to the base of the foremast.

Großtat

A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.

Großteil

The major part of something.

größtenteils

(idiomatic) In most aspects; mostly; generally.

Großtuerei

A prideful boasting or bragging.

großtuerisch

Of, or relating to hubris; overly arrogant.

großtun

To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.

großziehen

To raise or rear (children).

großzügig

Kind, generous.

Großzügigkeit

(uncountable) Willingness or generosity in providing something needed.

grotesk

(architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.

Grotte

A large cave.

Grub

An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

Grübchen

Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.

Grube

(stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.

Grübelei

thought, meditation, contemplation

grübeln

(intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.

grübelnd

Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

Grubenhunt

(mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

Grubenkopf

(countable) A broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum.

grüblerisch

Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

Gruft

A burial chamber.

Grufti

(countable) A person who is part of the goth subculture.

Grumbeere

A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.

grummeln

(intransitive, originally, military, _, slang, informal) To complain or grumble. [from late 19th c.]

Grummet

(obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; lattermath.

grün

(figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.

grün hinter den Ohren

(simile) Young and inexperienced.

grün-braun

Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

Grünbrache

(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

Grund

A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

Grund und Boden

Country or territory.

Grundannahme

(logic, mathematics, proof theory) A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context).

Grundberührung

The collision of a ship with ground beneath the surface of the water.

Grundbesitz

A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

Grundbesitzer

A person who owns land.

Grundbesitzerin

A person who owns land.

Grundbirne

A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.

Grundbuch

(accounting) A chronological record of payments or receipts.

gründeln

(intransitive, of waterfowl) To feed without diving, by submerging the head and neck underwater to seek food, often also tipping up the tail straight upwards above the water.

gründen

(transitive) To set up; to establish; to enact.

gründend

Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.

Gründer

One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

Gründerin

One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

Grundfeste

Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.

Grundfläche

The surface space occupied by a structure.

Grundgebirge

(geology) A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.

Grundgedanke

A speech that sets the main theme of a conference or other gathering; a keynote speech or keynote address.

Grundgesamtheit

(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

Grundgestein

(countable, uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock found at some depth below the ground surface.

grundieren

To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).

Grundierung

(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.

Grundinstandsetzung

A major repair, renovation, or revision.

Grundlage

(engineering) A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.

grundlegend

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

gründlich

Having scruples or compunctions.

gründlich ausfragen

To question at length.

gründlich prüfen

(transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.

Gründlichkeit

The state of being thorough.

Gründling

A small freshwater fish, Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia.

Grundlinie

A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.

grundlos

Without any grounds to support it; baseless.

Grundnahrungsmittel

A basic or essential supply.

Grundpfand

(legal) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.

Grundregel

An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

Grundsatz

An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.

grundsätzlich

Related to a foundation, base, or basis; serving as a foundation.

Grundsatzprogramm

(politics, figurative) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.

Grundschlag

(music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.

Grundstein

Such a stone used ceremonially, often inscribed with the architect's and owner's names, dates and other details.

Grundsteinlegung

A ceremony to mark the beginning of construction.

Grundstrich

A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.

Grundstück

A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

Grundstücksbestandteil

(grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.

Grundstückskaufvertrag

(legal) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

Grundstückslast

The state or condition of being encumbered.

Grundstücksmakler

(UK, Ireland) A person or company that acts in the sale, purchase, lease or maintenance of land, property, real estate etc for another.

Grundstücksmaklerin

(UK, Ireland) A person or company that acts in the sale, purchase, lease or maintenance of land, property, real estate etc for another.

Grundstückszubehör

(grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.

Grundstufe

(grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.

Grundton

(music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.

Gründung

(Christianity) The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland.

Gründungs-

Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.

Grundversorgung

A basic or essential supply.

Grundwasser

Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.

Grundweite

(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.

Grundwissen

Fundamental knowledge or background in a field or discipline.

Grundwort

(linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.

Grundzahl

(math) Ellipsis of cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)

Grundzustand

(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory

Grüne

(politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

grüne Route

A corridor of undeveloped or parkland, set aside for environmental protection or recreational and primarily nonmotorized use, such as bicycle paths.

grünen

(intransitive) To thrive or grow well.

grünend

Abundant in verdure; lush with vegetation.

Grüner

(politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

grüner Leguan

A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.

grüner Star

(pathology) An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.

Grunge

(music genre) A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s, which melds punk and metal.

Grünkohl

An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

Grünschnabel

An inexperienced and immature, or foolish and naive, young person.

grünschnäblig

(figurative) Inexperienced.

grunz

Representing the grunting sound made by a pig.