Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The chief deliberative body in certain countries of Europe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire (and of the Weimar Republic), which was composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. This term is no longer (in 1997) applied to the German parliament. See also bundesrath.
  • noun archaic The national representative body of Hungary, consisting of a House of Magnates (including archdukes, peers, high officials of the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Protestant Churches, and certain other dignitaries) and a House of Representatives (in 1912 consisting of 453 members). See Legislative, Diet.

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  • proper noun The diet of the Holy Roman Empire
  • proper noun The lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany until 1945

Etymologies

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German imperial parliament

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Examples

  • I got myself a bit lost and wound up looking at the Reichstag from a bit up the Spree River:

    Berlin da_lj 2010

  • -- _Abtheilungen_, in German Reichstag, 226; in Prussian Landtag, 264.

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • In February 1933, terrorists committed an arson attack on the German parliament, a pivotal event in German history that became known as the Reichstag fire.

    unknown title 2009

  • Finally, the conspiracy theories have scurried forth and reached the Swedish highest political assembly (known as Riksdagen, or as in German, Reichstag).

    henrymakow.com 2009

  • In February 1933, terrorists committed an arson attack on the German parliament, a pivotal event in German history that became known as the Reichstag fire.

    unknown title 2009

  • State of the Union address to his own "Reichstag" -- the Congress of the United States - on

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • The only reason that English isn't your second language after German -- he only reason the Congress isn't called the Reichstag -- the only reason the president isn't called the Fuhrer (by sane people) -- is that the blood of more than one million Americans and the toil and sacrifice of millions more scrubbed the stain of Nazism from the face of the earth.

    Sound Politics: Pressure on Democrats Building 2007

  • Thomas Gorman, an organizer of the NATO summit in Washington, on the diplomatic concerns that necessitated building a $70,000 conference table "Behind its monstrous dress, what we now have inside the Reichstag is a rather modest woman."

    Perspectives 2008

  • The burning of the Reichstag was to be the signal for a bloody insurrection and civil war ...

    Remebering February 27 2008

  • The Reichstag was the popularly elected legislative body of Germany, equivalent to our House of Representatives.

    The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler Shirer, William L 1961

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