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Komment

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from French comment (how).

Pronunciation

Noun

Komment m (strong, genitive Komments, plural Komments)

  1. (university slang, dated) custom, decency
    Synonyms: Anstand, Brauch, Gepflogenheit, Regel, Sitte
    • 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 282:
      Sein Eingreifen würde immerhin bewirken, daß die ganze Stadt mit den Fingern auf Guste Daimchen zeigte. Kein Mann, der halbwegs Komment hatte, heiratete solch ein Mädchen noch.
      His intervention would, after all, cause the entire town to point fingers at Guste Daimchen. No man, in his right mind (literally, who had halfway decency), would marry such a girl anymore.

Declension

Derived terms

  • kommentmäßig
  • kommentwidrig

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