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Gesellschaften

Gesellschaften is the plural of Gesellschaft.

Meaning of Gesellschaft

Noun

Gesellschaft (plural Gesellschaften or Gesellschafts)

  1. A hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft.
    • Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional Gesellschaft being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Questions about Gesellschaften

What is Gesellschaften the plural of?
Gesellschaften is the plural of Gesellschaft.

Words near Gesellschaften in the dictionary

  1. Gesarling
  2. geschmozzle
  3. Geschwind syndrome
  4. Gesellian
  5. Gesellschaft
  6. Gesellschaften
  7. Gesellschafts
  8. geshe
  9. gesheft
  10. geshefts
  11. geshes

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