German–English dictionary

Metzelei

A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.

Metzer

Of or relating to the city of Metz

Metzerin

A native or inhabitant of Metz

Metzger

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

Metzgerei

(chiefly, US) A store that sells meat.

Metzgerin

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

Meuchelmord

The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.

Meuchelmörder

Any ruthless killer.

Meuchelmörderin

Any ruthless killer.

Meuterei

(uncountable) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.

Meuterer

Someone who participates in mutiny.

Meuterin

Someone who participates in mutiny.

meuterisch

Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.

meuternd

Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.

Mexikaner

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico.

Mexikanerin

A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent.

mexikanisch

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico.

Mexikanische Chia

A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.

Mezzanin

An intermediate floor or storey in between the main floors of a building; specifically, one that is directly above the ground floor which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, and so resembles a large balcony overlooking the ground floor; an entresol.

Mi.

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Mia

A en given name.

Miami

A number of townships in the United States, including five in Ohio, listed under Miami Township.

Miao

A people who live predominantly in the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, and (in diaspora) around the world.

miau

Used to indicate the cry of a cat.

Miauen

(countable) The cry of a cat.

mich

(colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.

Michaela

A en given name.

Mick

(nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down

mickrig

(figuratively, informal) Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount. [from mid 19th c.]

Microscopique

(US, _, printing, rare, dated) A size of type between Saxon and excelsior, 2+1⁄2-point type.

Midas

(Greek mythology) A king who sought and was for a while granted the cherished but subtly dangerous magical power to turn anything he touched into gold.

Midlands

(British) A loosely-defined culturally distinct area of England, corresponding to the central horizontal band of England, now administratively realized as regions of East and West Midlands.

Mieder

A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.

Mief

(countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.

miefig

Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally) , having a stale or unfresh odour or taste.

Miene

Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.

mies

(slang) Of poor quality or highly undesirable.

mies sein

(chiefly, North American, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]

Miesepeter

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

Miesmacher

(slang) One who poops out on an activity; one who dampens the mood by lack of participation or negative attitude. Mostly used in the phrase party pooper.

Miesmuschel

A medium-sized edible mussel, Mytilus edulis, found on the North Atlantic coast of North America, Europe, and in other temperate and polar waters around the world.

mieten

(transitive, chiefly, UK) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

Mieter

The entity to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.

Mietnomade

One who occupies a building or land without title or permission. [from 1788]

Mietshaus

(legal) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

Mietskaserne

A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

Mietsoldat

A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.

Mietverhältnis

Synonym of lease (an interest in land, its related contract or the document containing that contract); more commonly used when a lease is short-term or has a periodic rent that is not merely nominal.

Mieze

(by extension) An adult cat; also (often, childish) , sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age.

Mignon

(uncountable, typography, printing) The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.

Migräne

(pathology) A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances.

Migrant

Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.

Migrantin

Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.

Migration

An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.

migrieren

(intransitive) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.

Mikado

(history) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.

Mikro

(informal) A microphone.

Mikroaggression

(sociology, chiefly, US) Any small-scale verbal or physical interaction between those of different races, cultures, beliefs, or genders that may have no malicious intent, but that can be interpreted as an aggression.

Mikrobe

A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.

Mikrobiologie

(biology) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.

Mikrobiota

The microbial community that inhabits a multi-cellular organism, whether the entire organism or a specific body surface.

mikrobisch

Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.

Mikrochip

An integrated circuit.

Mikrofilm

A continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size.

Mikrofon

A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.

Mikrofon-Windschutz

A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.

Mikroökonomie

(economics) The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company.

Mikrophon

A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.

Mikroprozessor

(computer hardware) The entire CPU of a computer on a single integrated circuit (chip).

Mikroskop

(constellation) A faint constellation of the southern spring sky, said to resemble a microscope. It lies south of the constellation of Capricornus.

Mikrowelle

An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves.

Mila

The capital city of Mila Province, located in northeastern Algeria.

Milan

A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

Milbe

Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).

Milch

(specifically) Referring to products produced from animal milk as opposed to non-milk substitutes.

Milchfrau

A woman who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.

Milchgeschäft

A place where dairy products are prepared or sold.

milchig

Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.

Milchkaffee

(figurative, informal, attributive) Affluent leftism.

Milchkalb

A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother.

Milchküche

(slang, vulgar, mostly, in the plural) A woman's breast.

Milchkuh

(by extension) Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money.

Milchladen

A place where dairy products are prepared or sold.

Milchmann

A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.

Milchprodukte

(uncountable) (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.

Milchsaft

The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.

Milchshake

A milkshake.

Milchzucker

(carbohydrate) The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C12H22O11, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.

mild

Of weather, mild and pleasant.

Milde

The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.

mildern

(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.

mildernd

Soothing or fragrant.

Mildheit

(legal) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.

mildherzig

Having a disposition to do good.

Mildherzigkeit

(uncountable) Disposition to do good.

mildtätig

Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.

Mildtätigkeit

(uncountable) Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need.

Mildtätigkeitgabe

(countable) The goods or money given to those in need.

Milieu

(chiefly, historical, _, (19th-century France)) A class of women maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a group.

militant

Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. [from 15th c.]

Militär

The military forces of a nation, such as the army, navy, air force, marines, and sometimes, coastguard or border guard, which are tasked with the defence of the nation and its citizens, if necessary through use of deadly force.

Militärangehöriger

A man who serves in the armed forces.

Militärgefängnis

(US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

militärisch

(comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.

Militarist

One who believes in the use of military force.

militaristisch

Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.

Militärwesen

Armed forces.

Milium

(dermatology) A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.

Miliz

An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.

Milje

Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

Milke

The pancreas or thymus gland of an animal, especially a lamb or calf, as food.

Millennial

(originally, US, demography) Often capitalized: a person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century, from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E., characterized by their familiarity with computer technology and poorer financial prospects than their parents.

Millennium

(with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

Milliardär

Somebody whose wealth is at least one billion (109) currency units.

Milliardärin

Somebody whose wealth is at least one billion (109) currency units.

Milliarde

(dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million (times a) million (logic: 1,000,0002): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (1012); a thousand milliard.

Milligramm

(metrology) An SI unit of mass equal to 10−3 grams. Symbol: mg

Milliliter

(British spelling) A unit of measure of capacity, equal to one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: mL or ml.

Millimeter

An SI/MKS unit of measure, the length of 1⁄1000 of a metre. Symbol: mm

Million

(long scale, and, short scale) The cardinal number 1 000 000: 106; a thousand thousand.

Millionär

Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (106) currency units.

Millionärin

Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (106) currency units.

millionstel

The ordinal form of the number one million.

milliontel

The ordinal form of the number one million.

Millisekunde

(metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 10−3 seconds. Symbol: ms

Milz-

(biology) Related to the spleen.

Milzbrand

(pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.

Mime

A veteran performer.

Mimose

(botany) A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers.

Min

An Ancient Egyptian god of fertility and procreation.

minderbemittelt

Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.

Minderjährige

(legal) A minor.

minderjährige Person

(Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.

Minderjähriger

(legal) A minor.

Minderleister

One who underachieves, i.e. performs less well than expected. [from 1950s]

Minderleisterin

One who underachieves, i.e. performs less well than expected. [from 1950s]

mindern

(transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.

Minderung

A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.

minderwertig

Of inferior quality.

Mindeste

(sometimes, vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

Mindestmaß

The lowest limit.

Mindestpreis

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

Mindestsatz

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

Mindestzinssatz

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

Mine

(military) A mine that is placed on land and designed to explode when stepped upon or touched.

Minecraft

(video games) A sandbox video game, released in 2011, in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items, build structures, fight mobs to get experience points, enchant items and defeat bosses to earn rewards.

Minenbombe

A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.

Mineralogie

(petrology) The branch of petrology that studies minerals.

mini-

(sometimes, derogatory) A very small thing; especially one which is conspicuously smaller than expected or by comparison. [from early 19th c.]

Miniatur

A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.