Bonze
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5 characters
Language
German
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Bonze is aGermannoun. It means: buddhistischer (lamaistischer) Mönch oder Priester in Ostasien, vor allem in China und Japan Pronounced [ˈbɔnt͡sə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bonze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɔnt͡sə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Bonze is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɔnt͡sə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Bonze in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Bonze, spelled B-O-N-Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1buddhistischer (lamaistischer) Mönch oder Priester in Ostasien, vor allem in China und Japan
- 2bigotter Geistlicher
- 3reiche Person (die mit ihrem Reichtum protzt)
- 4Person von hoher (gesellschaftlicher) Stellung
- 5herrschsüchtiger Vorgesetzter; Vorgesetzter allgemein (Lehrer, Rektor, Schulrat; Kommandeur)
- 6dem Volk entfremdeter, einflussreicher, höherer Funktionär (einer Partei, Gewerkschaft oder dergleichen), der in arroganter, engstirniger, rücksichtsloser Weise die Vorteile seiner Stellung ausnutzt; (höherer) Beamter
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