 |  |  | | | Word of the Day for Thursday, January 16, 2014 echt \ekht\, adjective: real; authentic; genuine. This is true or echt because I used a calculator.
-- Patricia Wood, Lottery, 2008 Outside, there is the kind of veiled, wintry sunshine which never manages to warm the chilly air, stirred by a light and capricious, echt Berlin breeze.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet, Repetition, 2003 Echt entered English from the German word of the same spelling in the early 1900s. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help |
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