say it: NAHT-see
nazi is a noun and adjective meaning "a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party
derogatory term for a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc.
disparagement
relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis
“the total Nazi crime”
“the Nazi interpretation of history”
relating to a form of socialism
“the national socialist party came to power in Germany in 1933”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nazi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.