Lebensraum

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from German Lebensraum (literally “living space”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lāʹbənzroum, IPA(key): /ˈleɪbənzˌɹaʊm/ === Proper noun === Lebensraum (in German history from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Centuries) Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race: (in early usage) an empire in the form of overseas colonies, in imitation of contemporary powers such as Britain and France. (in later usage, Nazism) a Großdeutschland obtained through Endoeuropean expansion, usually with a focus upon Drang nach Osten, and varying in its scope from the comparatively modest annexation of the Polish Border Strip to overlordship of the European continent by the conquest of Russian lands as far as the Urals. ==== Derived terms ==== lebensraum ==== Related terms ==== Lebenswelt ==== See also ==== spazio vitale. === Further reading === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Lebensraum”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. Lebensraum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === mensurable, seralbumen == German == === Etymology === Leben (“life”) +‎ -s- +‎ Raum (“space”). The historical sense is attributed to Friedrich Ratzel. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈleːbm̩sˌʁaʊ̯m/, /ˈleːbənsˌʁaʊ̯m/ === Noun === Lebensraum m (strong, genitive Lebensraumes or Lebensraums, plural Lebensräume) living space (biology) habitat (historical) lebensraum ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: Lebensraum → Portuguese: Lebensraum === Further reading === “Lebensraum” in Duden online “Lebensraum”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) == Portuguese == === Proper noun === Lebensraum m (historical) Lebensraum (territories regarded as vital for the flourishing of the German race)