 | English  | German | |
 | hist. [years of rapid industrial expansion in Germany at the end of the 19th century] | 12 Gründerzeit {f} | |
| theatre [19th-century Austrian stock comic character] | Staberl {m} | |
| archi. urban [elegant neighbourhood with detached houses from the late 19th and early 20s century in Vienna] | Cottage {n} [auch: Cottageviertel] [in Wien] | |
| lit. mus. theatre [farce with singing, popular in the 19th century] | Posse {f} mit Gesang | |
| hist. mil. [literally: "chain-dogs", pejorative nickname of uniformed military police units of German forces of the 19th and 20th century] | Kettenhunde {pl} [fig.] [ugs.] [Bezeichnung der Feldgendarmerie in dt. Streitkräften des 19. und 20. Jh.] | |
| archi. urban [tenement from the late 19th century] | Gründerzeithaus {n} [Zinshaus] | |
| hist. mil. [three-star general of the artillery branch of German Armed Forces of the 19th and 20th cent.] | General {m} der Artillerie | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the 19th and 20th cent. German Armed Forces calvary corps] | General {m} der Kavallerie | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the infantry branch of German Armed Forces of the 19th and 20th cent.] | General {m} der Infanterie | |
| for. bobsleigh [Br.] [mid 19th cent., originally US, denoting a sleigh made of two short sleighs coupled together and used for hauling logs] | Doppelschlitten {m} [zum Langholztransport] | |
| hist. bushranger [Aus.] [19th century] | Straßenräuber {m} | |
| hist. pol. Carbonari [a 19th century Italian Unitarian secret society] | Carbonari {pl} [auch: Karbonari] [italienischer, unitaristischer Geheimbund im 19. Jahrhundert] | |
| hist. drum [evening tea party of a kind that was popular in the late 18th and early 19th century] | Abendgesellschaft {f} [bes. im späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert] | |
| philos. existentialism [19th and 20th century] | Existenzphilosophie {f} | |
| publ. Krünitz [standard 18th/19th-century German encyclopedia] | Krünitz {m} [ugs.] [Oekonomische Encyklopädie] | |
| hist. Merneptah [also: Merenptah] [pharaoh of the 19th dynasty] | Merenptah {m} [auch: Merneptah, Menepthah] [Pharao der 19. Dynastie] | |
| hist. spec. Mfecane [19th-century period of wars in southern Africa] | Mfecane {f} | |
| lit. Parnassians {pl} [group of French poets of the 19th cent.] | Parnassiens {pl} [frz. Dichtergruppe des 19. Jh.] | |
| hist. naut. transp. spitz [19th century river barge] | Péniche {f} [aus 19. Jahrhundert] | |
| hist. mil. supernumeraries [excess personnel in German Armed Forces in the 18th and 19th centuries] | Überkomplette {pl} | |
| curr. hist. thaler [large coins used in Germanic countries during the 15th-19th centuries] | Taler {pl} | |
| curr. hist. thaler [large coins used in Germanic countries during the 15th-19th centuries] | Thaler {pl} [altertümlich] [Taler] | |
| curr. hist. thalers [large coins used in Germanic countries during the 15th-19th centuries] | Taler {pl} | |
| curr. hist. thalers [large coins used in Germanic countries during the 15th-19th centuries] | Thaler {pl} [altertümlich] [Taler] | |
| hist. mil. Towarzysz [lancer, Prussian Army, 19th cent.] | Towarzysz {m} [Lanzenreiter, preußische Armee, 19. Jh.] | |
| 2 Words: Nouns |
| hist. acad. big science [19th century] | Großwissenschaft {f} | |
| hist. Chisholm Trail [cattle route, USA, 19th C.] | Chisholm Trail {m} [Herdenweg in den Vereinigten Staaten] | |
| archi. art hist. Gründerzeit style [Central European version of 19th/early 20th cent. historicism] | Gründerzeit {f} [Stil] | |
| archi. art hist. Gründerzeit style [Central European version of 19th/early 20th cent. historicism] | Gründerzeitstil {m} | |
| hist. Jewish emancipation [in 18th-19th century Europe] | Judenemanzipation {f} | |
| hist. law Jews' edict [Bavarian 19th century law limiting the number of Jewish families] | Judenedikt {n} [Königreich Bayern, 19. Jh.] | |
| hist. pol. middling states [Germany, 19th century] | Mittelstaaten {pl} [Deutschland, 19. Jh.] | |
| hist. mil. military policeman [Germany, mid 19th century until 1945] | Feldgendarm {m} | |
| acad. natural scientist [especially as understood in 18th and 19th centuries; usually a layman] | Naturforscher {m} | |
| hist. sociol. New Woman [feminist ideal of the late 19th century] | Neue Frau {f} [feministisches Ideal des späten 19. Jahrhunderts] | |
| hist. prairie schooner [America, 19th C.] | Planwagen {m} [19. Jh., Amerika] | |
| hist. law registration law [Bavarian 19th century law allowing only the firstborn male Jews to start a family] | Matrikelgesetz {n} | |
| hist. lit. theatre sentimental tragicomedy [popular in the late 18th/early 19th cent.] | weinerliche Komödie {f} | |
| cloth. hist. smoking cap [19th-century fashion] | Raucherkappe {f} [veraltet] | |
| cloth. hist. smoking cap [19th-century fashion] | Rauchermütze {f} [veraltet] | |
| archi. hist. spa style [building style typical for spa and health resorts, late 19th / early 20th century] | Bäderarchitektur {f} | |
| hist. pol. Splendid Isolation [British foreign policy 19th century] | Splendid Isolation {f} [britische Außenpolitik des 19. Jahrhunderts] | |
| hist. mil. swagger stick [stick of non-commissioned officers in German forces of the 18th and 19th centuries used for punishment of soldiers] | Korporalsstock {m} | |
| hist. journ. yellow press [pej.] [Am.] [late 19th century] | Hetzpresse {f} [pej.] | |
| 3 Words: Others |
| hist. fin-de-siècle {adj} [attr.] [of the end of the 19th century] | des Fin de Siècle [nachgestellt] [aus der Zeit des ausgehenden 19. Jh.] | |
| 3 Words: Nouns |
| geogr. hist. 19th-century England [also: 19th century England] | das England {n} des 19. Jahrhunderts | |
| hist. Austrian Imperial A-roads [Br.] [19th/early 20th c.] | österreichische Reichsstraßen {pl} [19./frühes 20. Jh.] | |
| urban elegant residential area [esp. late 19th or early 20th century] | Villenviertel {n} | |
| hist. Frozen Charlotte (doll) [19th-century doll named after the "Fair Charlotte" American folk ballad] | Frozen Charlotte {f} [beliebte Porzellanpuppe der viktorianischen Epoche] | |
| hist. James-Younger Gang [a notable 19th-century gang of American outlaws] | James-Younger-Bande {f} [auch: James-Younger-Gang] | |
| law Serjeants-at-law <SL> [archaic] [elitist order of barristers in England until the 19th century] | [bis in das 19. Jahrhundert eine elitäre Vereinigung von Anwälten in England] | |
| hist. relig. spec. Wissenschaft des Judentums [Science of Judaism: 19th century movement] | Wissenschaft {f} des Judentums | |
| hist. young historical school [also: Young Historical School] [19th. cent. German historical group] | junghistorische Schule {f} | |
| 4 Words: Nouns |
| hist. pol. enemies of the Empire [19th-century Germany] | Reichsfeinde {pl} | |
| hist. relig. Friends of the Light [19th-century German religious group] | Lichtfreunde {pl} [Verein der Protestantischen Freunde] | |
| Fiction (Literature and Film) |
| lit. F The Story of the Three Bears [a British 19th-century fairy tale of which three versions exist] | Goldlöckchen und die drei Bären | |
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