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adjective
- 1. authentic and typical: "the film's opening was an echt pop snob event"
adverb
- 1. authentically and typically: "echt-American writers as Hawthorne and Cooper and Mark Twain"
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Echt is an adjective that means true, genuine, or real. It comes from German or Yiddish and was popularized by playwright George Bernard Shaw. See synonyms, examples, and word history of echt.
Echt means genuine, real, or true in German. Learn how to use it as an adjective or an adverb, and see examples of echt in different contexts and sentences.
Echt definition: real; authentic; genuine.. See examples of ECHT used in a sentence.
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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.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ɛkt/ 1.1. Rhymes: -ɛkt
Adjective
echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt) 1. Proper, real, genuine, true to type. 1.1. 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8: 1.1.1. I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echtMeredith. 1.2. 2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california (Usenet): 1.2.1. And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homoge...
Etymology
Borrowed from German echt, from Middle High German echt, from Middle Low German echt.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): [ˈɛxt] 2. Hyphenation: echt
Adjective
echt (indeclinable) 1. (colloquial) echt, genuine, pure, unadulterated 1.1. Synonyms: nefalšovaný, opravdový, ryzí
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ɛxt/ 2. Hyphenation: echt 3. Rhymes: -ɛxt 4. Homophone: Echt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch echt, from Old Dutch *ēhaft, from Proto-West Germanic *aiwahaft.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Alternative forms
1. ächt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle High German echt, borrowed from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”). The original form is Middle Low German ēhaft (“lawful”), from ē (“law”) (related to modern Ehe); then ēhacht by the Low German development -ft- → -cht- (compare Nichte); and eventually contracted into echt. Cognate to Old High German ēhaft (“honourable”) and Dutch echt.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ɛçt/ 2. Rhymes: -ɛçt
Verb
echt 1. Alternative form of aicht (“to own”)
References
1. “echt, v.tr.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
honest, honorable. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent. existent, real. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory. sincere. open and genuine; not deceitful. true. consistent with fact or reality; not false. see more.
1. real, genuine; Gefühle real, genuine, sincere; Haar, Perlen, Gold real; Unterschrift, Geldschein, Gemälde genuine; Haarfarbe natural. das Gemälde war nicht echt the painting was a forgery, the painting was forged. 2. (= typisch) typical. ein echter Bayer a real or typical Bavarian. 3. Farbe fast. 4. (Math) echter Bruch proper fraction. adverb.
dict.cc dictionary :: echt :: German-English translation. echt. » Tabular list of translations | always. » List of translations starting with the same letters. ADJ. echt | echter | am echtesten. echter | echte | echtes. echtester | echteste | echtestes.
