Reichstag

Borrowed from German Reichstag (“imperial parliament”).

Reichstag

1. (historical) The diet of the Holy Roman Empire.
2. (historical) The lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany until 1945; the building that housed it.
   • 2025 September 11, Ezra Klein, “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 September 2025:

     Another is on the right, to turn his murder into a justification for an all-out war, a Reichstag fire for our time.

3. The building in Berlin that houses the Bundestag of modern Germany.
   • 2017 February 7, Oliver Wainwright, “How we made the Wrapped Reichstag”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 March 2017:

     It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen: 100 rock climbers abseiling down the facade of the Reichstag, slowly unfurling this huge silvery curtain.

• Bundestag

From Reich (“empire”) +‎ Tag (“convention, congress”) (dated).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁaɪ̯çstaːk/

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• Hyphenation: Reichs‧tag

Reichstag m (proper noun, strong, genitive Reichstages or Reichstags, plural Reichstage)

1. Reichstag, the lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany until 1945
2. The Reichstag building in Berlin housing the Bundestag nowadays.

• “Reichstag” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Reichstag” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Reichstag” in Duden online
• Reichstag on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de