"German 88" meaning in English

See German 88 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: German 88s [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} German 88 (plural German 88s)
  1. (colloquial, World War II, military, historical) A WWII German 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery multi-purpose field gun. Tags: colloquial, historical Synonyms: 88 Related terms: French 75, napoleon

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "German 88s",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "German 88 (plural German 88s)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "World War II",
          "orig": "en:World War II",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A WWII German 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery multi-purpose field gun."
      ],
      "id": "en-German_88-en-noun-HhMyOBto",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "WWII",
          "WWII"
        ],
        [
          "German",
          "German"
        ],
        [
          "mm",
          "mm"
        ],
        [
          "anti-aircraft",
          "anti-aircraft"
        ],
        [
          "artillery",
          "artillery"
        ],
        [
          "field gun",
          "field gun"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "World War II",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, World War II, military, historical) A WWII German 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery multi-purpose field gun."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "French 75"
        },
        {
          "word": "napoleon"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "88"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "German 88"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "German 88s",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "German 88 (plural German 88s)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "French 75"
    },
    {
      "word": "napoleon"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms spelled with numbers",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Military",
        "en:World War II"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A WWII German 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery multi-purpose field gun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "WWII",
          "WWII"
        ],
        [
          "German",
          "German"
        ],
        [
          "mm",
          "mm"
        ],
        [
          "anti-aircraft",
          "anti-aircraft"
        ],
        [
          "artillery",
          "artillery"
        ],
        [
          "field gun",
          "field gun"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "World War II",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, World War II, military, historical) A WWII German 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery multi-purpose field gun."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "88"
    }
  ],
  "word": "German 88"
}

Download raw JSONL data for German 88 meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.