rijksdag

Dutch

Etymology

From rijk (“empire”) ‎ -s- ‎ dag (“representative assembly”).

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• Hyphenation: rijks‧dag

Noun

rijksdag m (plural rijksdagen)

1. an imperial diet, notably:
   1. of the Holy Roman Empire
   2. of imperial (Hohenzollern) Germany
   3. of the Third Reich, Nazi Germany
   4. as upper house (senate) in the empire Japan since the Meiji reform

Related terms

• landdag