[naht-see, nat-] 
noun, plural -zis, adjective | 1. | a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural, economic, and political activities of the people, and promulgated belief in the supremacy of Hitler as Führer, aggressive anti-Semitism, the natural supremacy of the German people, and the establishment of Germany by superior force as a dominant world power. The party was officially abolished in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II. |
| 2. | (often lowercase ) a person elsewhere who holds similar views. |
| 3. | Sometimes Offensive. (often lowercase) a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc.: a jazz nazi who disdains other forms of music; tobacco nazis trying to ban smoking. |
| 4. | of or pertaining to the Nazis. |
| Na·zi (nät'sē, nāt'-) n. pl. Na·zis
[German, short for Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, National Socialist German Workers' Party.] Na'zi·fi·ca'tion (-sə-fĭ-kā'shən) n., Na'zi·fy' (-sə-fī') v. |
| Nazi German Nationalsozialistische [deutsche Arbeiter-Partei] (National Socialist [German Workers' Party]) |