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fraulein

/fɹɔɪlaɪn/

fraulein noun: a young German woman.

Noun (1)

fraulein (plural frauleins)

  1. A young German woman.
    • […] "fratting" (fraternising) a bit with the frauleins, who were apparently not at all reluctant to be "fratted" with.1967, Sir John George Smyth, Bolo Whistler: The Life of General Sir Lashmer Whistler, page 159
    • Waiters are in button-downs, and waitresses wear full-on fraulein garb.2007 May 20, “A Coastline Smorgasbord”, in New York Times

Noun (2) capitalized: Fraulein

Fraulein (plural Frauleins)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of fraulein.

Forms of fraulein

pluralfrauleins
alternative formFraulein
alternative formFräulein
alternative formfräulein
alternative formFraeulein
alternative formfraeulein
pluralFrauleins

Origin of fraulein

Borrowed from German Fräulein.

Words that rhyme with fraulein

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Questions about fraulein

What does fraulein mean?
Fraulein means a young German woman.
What part of speech is fraulein?
Fraulein is a noun.
How do you pronounce fraulein?
Fraulein is pronounced /fɹɔɪlaɪn/.
What is the plural of fraulein?
The plural of fraulein is frauleins.

Words near fraulein in the dictionary

  1. fraughtest
  2. fraughteth
  3. fraughting
  4. fraughtness
  5. fraughts
  6. fraulein
  7. frauleins
  8. Fraunce
  9. Fraunces
  10. Frauncis
  11. Fraunhofer line

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