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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The legislative assembly of many German-speaking polities, including most German states.
  • noun A diet or assembly in some German states in the 19th century.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Germany, the legislature of a country; a territorial diet; now, specifically, one of the parliaments of the countries constituting the German empire, as Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, etc., and of some of the crownlands of Austria-Hungary, as Moravia and Bohemia. See Reichstag.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Prussia.) The diet or legislative body. See legislature, below.

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  • noun A representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries, with some legislative authority.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German : Land, country (from Middle High German lant; see landsman) + Tag, day, diet, assembly (from Middle High German, from Old High German, influenced by Medieval Latin diēta, diet; see agh- in Indo-European roots).]

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