stalag
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈstæləɡ/
- Archaic
- They got out of Stalag 17, all right... only not quite the way they wanted to go.
- Stalag 17
- Stalag Luft
- Stalag Luft III
Examples
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Vincent was a prisoner of war in the Stalag near my home.
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"Were you ever in my room at the Stalag?"
Fiction book (2002) -
So it got to be Christmas Day in Stalag 17.
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You saw us this morning at the stalag.
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Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17.
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So life sort of drifted back to normal in Stalag 17.
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I spent two-and-a-half years in Stalag 17.
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He spent 18 months in the Stalag Luft I prison camp before being freed by the Russians when the war ended.
Blog text (23) -
"Stalag" is the German word for "prison camp”... and number 17 was somewhere on the Danube.
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During World War II, many soldiers were sent to a stalag where they faced harsh conditions.
Synonyms
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5.3
A camp where guards keep people against their will, often during war
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7.6
A place where people are held under guard during war or for political reasons
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3.2
A place that holds soldiers captured by the enemy during a war
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word stalag comes from German short for Stammlager, made of Stamm 'main' and Lager 'camp'. So a stalag was the 'main camp' where regular, non-officer soldiers were held during World War II.