"Bauhaus" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈbaʊhaʊs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bauhaus.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Bauhaus||house of architecture}} German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), {{m|de|Bau||building, construction}} Bau (“building, construction”), {{m|de|Haus||house}} Haus (“house”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Bauhaus
  1. (architecture, design, also attributively) A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design. Wikipedia link: Fritz Lang, Isokon, Isokon Long Chair, Marcel Breuer, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Thea von Harbou, Walter Gropius Tags: also, attributive Categories (topical): Architecture, Design Derived forms: Bauhausian Translations (modernist style): باوهاوس (Arabic), Բաուհաուզ (Bauhauz) (Armenian), Bauhauz (Azerbaijani), বাউহাউস (bauhaus) (Bengali), Баухаус (english: Bauhaus) (Bulgarian), 包浩斯 (Chinese Cantonese), 包豪斯 (Bāoháosī) (Chinese Mandarin), Баухауз (Bauh̬auz) (Chuvash), ბაუჰაუზი (bauhauzi) (Georgian), Bauhaus [neuter] (German), Μπάουχαους (Báouchaous) [neuter] (Greek), באוהאוס (Hebrew), बौहाउस (bauhāus) (Hindi), バウハウス (Japanese), 바우하우스 (bauhauseu) (Korean), Баухауз (Bauhauz) (Kyrgyz), Баухаус (english: Bauhaus) (Macedonian), ബവ്ഹൗസ് (bavhausŭ) (Malayalam), باوهاوس (Persian), Баухаус (Bauxaus) (Russian), Bauhaus [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Баухаус [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), เบาเฮาส์ (Thai), Ба́угауз (Báuhauz) (Ukrainian), باؤہاؤس (Western Panjabi)
    Sense id: en-Bauhaus-en-name-beMS~rTt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: architecture, arts, design

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    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "modernist style",
      "word": "باوهاوس"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Bauxaus",
      "sense": "modernist style",
      "word": "Баухаус"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "modernist style",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bauhaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "modernist style",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Баухаус"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "modernist style",
      "word": "เบาเฮาส์"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Báuhauz",
      "sense": "modernist style",
      "word": "Ба́угауз"
    },
    {
      "code": "pnb",
      "lang": "Western Panjabi",
      "sense": "modernist style",
      "word": "باؤہاؤس"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Bauhaus"
}

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