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Definition of Ersatz

1. Adjective. Artificial and inferior. "Substitute coffee"

Definition of Ersatz

1. Adjective. Made in imitation; artificial, especially of an inferior quality. ¹

2. Noun. Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ersatz

1. a substitute [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ersatz

Literary usage of Ersatz

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-one Divisions of the German Army which by United States War Dept. General Staff (1920)
"Formed in August, 1914, by grouping the Guard ersatz Battalions and the ersatz Battalions of ... There it formed part of the ersatz Corps and held various ..."

2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"ersatz WORTH CLASS (3) to the two-battleships-a-year policy—and had yielded ... ersatz Fr'd'h III.28500 J 123.0 The German battle cruisers in the known ..."

3. Vagabonding Through Changing Germany by Harry Alverson Franck (1920)
"The chief reason for this was that food had become more and more ersatz—substitute articles, ranging all the way from "something almost as good" to the mere ..."

4. Germany's Violations of the Laws of War 1914-15 by Ministère Des Affaires Étrangères, France, John Otway Percy Bland (1915)
"79 EXTRACT from the note-book of Private Willmer of the ^oth Brigade, ersatz Battalion ioth Division, ersatz Corps, recording the plundering at Cham- ..."

5. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... all at war—The pathetic cab-horses—Electrified taxis—Laughless Germany—Watery beer—The Germans have an " ersatz " for everything but men—Pleasures taken ..."

6. The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence by William S. Hein & Company (1845)
"... confusion and destruction of the law of England." AET. IV.—THE LAW OF FEES AND COSTS: No. I. 1. Lehre vom ersatz und Compensation der Kosten. CJ KUNTZ. ..."

7. Tagbuch einer Reise in inner-arabien by Julius Euting, Enno Littmann (1896)
"Der Emir verspricht ihm, für Rückgabe oder ersatz zu sorgen, und lässt den Schech des Stammes, welchem der Dieb angehört, davon in Kenntniss setzen mit der ..."

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