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Definition of Lebensraum
1. Noun. Space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding.
Definition of Lebensraum
1. Proper noun. (context: in German history from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Centuries) Territories considered appropriate for German annexation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race: ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly with reference to nations and peoples) Hitherto unoccupied “living space” claimed as one’s rightful domain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lebensraum
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lebensraum
Literary usage of Lebensraum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"When it is a question of defending the vital interests of the Reich, Germany's
lebensraum and the future of her people, no sacrifice is too great for us. ..."
2. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"Ratzel, Der lebensraum, eine bio-geographische Studie, p. 51. Tubingen, 1901. 6.
DG Brinton, Races and Peoples, pp. 271, 293-295. Philadelphia, 1901. 7. ..."
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