Lehre
German, noun
Lehre is spelled L-E-H-R-E (5 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written German, the 2,820th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lehre is a German feminine noun meaning “teaching, tenet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, lehre is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sprachliche Darstellung eines Wissensgebietes in Lehrbüchern oder Vorträgen”.
What does Lehre mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineteaching, tenet
- 2
feminineapprenticeship
- 3
femininedoctrine
- 4
femininelesson
- 5
femininetheory (system of knowledge related to one aspect of a field of study)
- 6
femininescience
- 7
femininejig, gauge (tool)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. sprachliche Darstellung eines Wissensgebietes in Lehrbüchern oder Vorträgen 2. Ausbildung, in der man durch Anleitung und Unterweisung Wissen und Können erwirbt 3. Erfahrung meist negativer Art, aus der man etwas gelernt hat oder zumindest etwas hätte lernen können 4. Tätigkeit der Wissensvermittlung, insbesondere an Hochschulen
noun: 1. Werkzeug zum Vermessen
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 Lehre
- Lehren plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Lehre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Lehre in German?
Lehre appears 29 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).