bonhoeffer

1. 1.

   German Lutheran theologian and pastor whose works concern Christianity in the modern world; an active opponent of Nazism, he was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and later executed (1906-1945)

   SynonymsDietrich Bonhoeffer

   Broadertheologian

Other forms of bonhoeffer

plural

bonhoeffers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bonhoeffer

What does bonhoeffer mean?

bonhoeffer means "German Lutheran theologian and pastor whose works concern Christianity in the modern world; an active opponent of Nazism, he was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and later executed (1906-1945)".

How many syllables are in bonhoeffer?

bonhoeffer has 4 syllables: bon-ho-ef-fer. The stress falls on "ho".

What is another word for bonhoeffer?

Close synonyms include Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bonhoeffer a common word?

bonhoeffer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.