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Bedeutungswandel

German, noun[bəˈdɔɪ̯tʊŋsˌvandl̩]

Bedeutungswandel is spelled B-E-D-E-U-T-U-N-G-S-W-A-N-D-E-L (16 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 118,498th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bedeutungswandel is a German masculine noun meaning “semantic change, semantic shift” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Veränderung der Bedeutung eines sprachlichen Ausdrucks mit der Zeit; der Begriff wird vorwiegend auf die…”.

What does Bedeutungswandel mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesemantic change, semantic shift

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Veränderung der Bedeutung eines sprachlichen Ausdrucks mit der Zeit; der Begriff wird vorwiegend auf die Veränderungen bei Wörtern angewendet.

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Bedeutungswandel

  • Bedeutungswandels genitive
  • Bedeutungswandeln dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Bedeutungswandel?

  • [bəˈdɔɪ̯tʊŋsˌvandl̩]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Bedeutungswandel in German?

Bedeutungswandel appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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