preussen

1. 1.

   a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland

   “in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states”

   SynonymsPrussia

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofGermanyPoland

   PartsBrandenburg

Other forms of preussen

plural

preussens·

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 preussen

What does preussen mean?

preussen means "a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland".

How many syllables are in preussen?

preussen has 3 syllables: pre-us-sen. The stress falls on "pre".

What is another word for preussen?

Close synonyms include Prussia. 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 preussen a common word?

preussen 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.