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echt

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ɛkt/

Definition of echt

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Proper, real, genuine, true to type.
    “I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.”
    “And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.”
    “An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].”
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adj

  1. Proper, real, genuine, true to type.
    “I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.”
    “And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.”
    “An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].”

name

  1. A small village at a crossroads in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ7305).
  2. A town in Echt-Susteren municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.

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Etymology

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”). First use in English appears c. 1916.

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