German–English dictionary

Trophäenfrau

(derogatory) A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for the husband, usually older and affluent.

Tropismus

(uncountable, biology) The turning of an organism (chiefly a plant) or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; (countable) an instance of this.

Tropus

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

Trosse

(nautical) A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship.

Trost

(chiefly, UK) A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants.

trösten

(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

tröstend

Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

Tröster

A person who comforts someone who is suffering.

tröstlich

Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

trostlos

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

Trostlosigkeit

The state of being desolated or laid waste

Trostpreis

The prize or benefit for the loser.

trostreich

Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

Tröt

(countable, social media) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.

Trott

(figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]

Trottel

(colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

trottelig

silly, quirky

trotten

(intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.

Trotteur

A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

trotz

In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.

trotzdem

(idiom) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.

trotzen

(transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.

trotzig

Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.

Trotzkopf

A person who is recalcitrant.

Troubadour

(historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment.

Troubadourin

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

Troubairitz

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

trüb

Uncertain; unclear.

trübe

Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

Trubel

(countable, or, uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.

trüben

(transitive) To make, render (more) opaque.

Trübnis

A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.

Trübsal

(usually, in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.

trübselig

Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

Trübsinn

Usually preceded by the: a state of apathy or lack of interest; a situation where one feels boredom, ennui, or tedium; a state of listlessness or malaise.

trübsinnig

Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.

Trübung

A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.

Trudeln

(aviation) A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.

Trugbild

(countable) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.

trügerisch

Deceptive, two-faced.

trügerischerweise

In a deceptive manner; misleadingly.

Trugschluss

(music, US) a falling cadence in which the ear expects a dominant chord to resolve to the tonic, but it resolves to something else (usually a submediant chord) instead.

Truhe

A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

Truismus

A self-evident or obvious truth.

trullern

To walk or travel in a carefree manner.

Trümmer

Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

Trümmerhaufen

(countable, uncountable) A scene of great disorder or ruin.

Trump

A surname from German.

Trumpf

(cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

trumpfen

(intransitive, cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.

Trumpffarbe

(cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

Trumpfkarte

(cards) A playing card of that suit.

Trunk

A type of beverage (usually mixed).

Trunkenheit

A state of being drunk.

Trunksucht

Dependency on alcohol.

Trunksüchtiger

A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.

Trupp

A group of people loosely united for a common purpose, such as a band of thieves.

Truppe

(military, only plural) Troops.

Truppen

(military, only plural) Troops.

Truppenkontingent

(military) A quota of troops.

Trust

A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.

Trutenfleisch

(uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

Truthahn

(countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).

Truthahnfleisch

(uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

Truthenne

(countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).

Truthuhn

(countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).

Trysub

A trident emblem representing Ukraine. [from mid 20th c.]

Tschaikowski

A transliteration of the Russian surname Чайко́вский (Čajkóvskij), usually applying to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Tschako

A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.

Tscham

an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).

Tschampa

(historical) A collection of Cham polities in what is now Vietnam from the 2nd century through 1832.

Tschatscha

A traditional Georgian clear strong liquor distilled from pomace.

tschau

(colloquial) Goodbye.

Tscheche

(countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.

Tschechin

(countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.

tschechisch

Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.

Tschechoslowake

A native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia

Tschechoslowakei

A former country in Central Europe, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Tschechoslowakin

A native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia

tschechoslowakisch

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Czechoslovakia or its people.

Tscheka

(historical) The first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations, created in 1917.

Tschernobyl

A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.

Tscherokese

A member of an indigenous North American people.

Tscherokesen

An indigenous North American people.

Tschetschene

A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.

Tschetschenen

A Nakh people of the northeastern Caucasus, now mostly Sunni Muslim and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.

Tschetschenien

A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny.

Tschetschenin

A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.

tschetschenisch

Of or relating to the Chechen people.

tschilpen

(intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.

tschö

(colloquial) Goodbye.

Tschop

A city in Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.

Tschornobyl

A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.

Tschurtschen

The fruit of a conifer.

tschüss

(colloquial) Goodbye.

Tsunami

(proscribed) A large, sudden, and disastrous wave of water caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean; a tsunami. (See Usage notes below.)

Tuba

A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.

Tube

An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

Tuberkulose

(pathology) The most common form of active tuberculosis (TB) infecting the lungs, generally caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Tuch

(countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

Tuchnoppe

A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.

tüchtig

Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

Tüchtigkeit

Ability, skill, competence.

Tuckern

A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.

tückisch

Unreliable; dangerous.

Tucson

A city, the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, in the southwestern United States.

Tüddelkram

Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.

tüdelig

(informal) Mentally senile.

Tuff

(rock) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.

Tuffstein

(rock) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.

tüfteln

(ambitransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.

Tüftler

(slang, sometimes, _, derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.

Tugend

(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being good.

Tugendbold

(derogatory) A goody-goody; a person who is almost always perfectly well-behaved, with an implication of smugness.

tugendhaft

Moral and virtuous, perhaps to the point of sanctimony.

Tugendhaftigkeit

(often, in the plural) Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness. [from 18th c.]

tugendsam

Moral and virtuous, perhaps to the point of sanctimony.

Tüll

A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

Tulle

A town, the capital of Corrèze department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

tumb

Unrefined, crude.

Tumbler

A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure.

Tummelplatz

(by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.

Tümmler

One of the species of gray dolphin in the genus Tursiops, between 2 and 4 meters in length inhabiting warm and temperate seas worldwide.

Tumor

(oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.

Tumult

A stir; a fuss or uproar.

tumultartig

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.

tumultuarisch

Causing or characterized by tumult; chaotic, disorderly, turbulent. [from mid 16th c.]

tun

(obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.

Tünche

(uncountable) A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.

Tundra

A flat and treeless Arctic biome.

Tunesien

The Republic of Tunisia, since 1956.

Tunesier

A person from Tunisia or of Tunisian descent.

Tunesierin

A person from Tunisia or of Tunisian descent.

tunesisch

Of, from, or pertaining to Tunisia, the Tunisian people or the Tunisian language.

Tunichtgut

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, often, disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.

Tunika

A knee-length tunic.

Tuning

A major repair, renovation, or revision.

Tunis

Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.

tunken

(transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

Tunnel

(football, hockey, basketball) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.

tunneln

(sport, transitive) To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).

Tunte

(dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]

tuntig

(of a, man) Ostentatiously effeminate.

tupfen

(transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.

Tupfer

(medicine) A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.

Tür

(architecture) A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.

Tür und Tor

(figuratively, extension) Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc.

Türband

A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.

Turbine

Any of various rotary machines that use the kinetic energy of a continuous stream of fluid (a liquid or a gas) to turn a shaft.

Turbinenschaufel

(biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.