"zweihänder" meaning in English

See zweihänder in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: zweihänders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} zweihänder (plural zweihänders)
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Zweihänder Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: Zweihänder
    Sense id: en-zweihänder-en-noun-KSZXjNpi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for zweihänder meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zweihänders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "zweihänder (plural zweihänders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Zweihänder"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Manda Scott, Into The Fire, Random House, page 260",
          "text": "The Germans are better than the English, better than the Genoese or Venetians or Poles; more disciplined, better trained, fond of the big zweihänder blades that are lethal in spread combat. They are more expensive than the Piedmontese, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Syed Ramsey, Tools of War: History of Weapons in Ancient Times, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd",
          "text": "The katzbalger's S-shaped guard and 2-foot-long (0.61 m) blade made it perfect for bringing in when the fighting became too close to use a zweihänder.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, John Rogan, Shadowcast, page 23",
          "text": "There were not only traditional swords and assault rifles, but also quarterstaves with gun barrels at each end, a zweihänder with a chainsaw blade, a pair of sawn-off shotguns chained together like nunchucks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Zweihänder"
      ],
      "id": "en-zweihänder-en-noun-KSZXjNpi",
      "links": [
        [
          "Zweihänder",
          "Zweihänder#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "zweihänder"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zweihänders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "zweihänder (plural zweihänders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Zweihänder"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms spelled with Ä",
        "English terms spelled with ◌̈",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Manda Scott, Into The Fire, Random House, page 260",
          "text": "The Germans are better than the English, better than the Genoese or Venetians or Poles; more disciplined, better trained, fond of the big zweihänder blades that are lethal in spread combat. They are more expensive than the Piedmontese, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Syed Ramsey, Tools of War: History of Weapons in Ancient Times, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd",
          "text": "The katzbalger's S-shaped guard and 2-foot-long (0.61 m) blade made it perfect for bringing in when the fighting became too close to use a zweihänder.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, John Rogan, Shadowcast, page 23",
          "text": "There were not only traditional swords and assault rifles, but also quarterstaves with gun barrels at each end, a zweihänder with a chainsaw blade, a pair of sawn-off shotguns chained together like nunchucks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Zweihänder"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Zweihänder",
          "Zweihänder#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "zweihänder"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). 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.