Spengler

[ speng-gler; German shpeng-gluhr ]

noun

1. Os·wald [oz, -wawld, aws, -vahlt], 1880–1936, German philosopher.

Spengler

/ ˈʃpɛŋlər; ˈspɛŋlə /

noun

1. SpenglerOswald18801936MGermanPHILOSOPHY: philosopher of history Oswald (ˈɔsvalt). 1880–1936, German philosopher of history, noted for The Decline of the West (1918–22), which argues that civilizations go through natural cycles of growth and decay

Other Words From

• Speng·le·ri·an [speng-, gleer, -ee-, uh, n, shpeng-], noun adjective

Example Sentences

Eventually this drew a visit from the local head of the Security Police, Colonel Att Spengler.

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Spengler wanted to know how I was getting all this information.

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I found the morose philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spengler) the most interesting.

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What did Newtown killer Adam Lanza and Webster, N.Y., Christmas shooter William Spengler have in common?

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Comparative historians like Spengler, Pareto and Toynbee realized that history did not merely happen but had some kind of pattern.

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Base flat, and this holds good, as remarked by Spengler, even when the specimens are attached to cylindrical pieces of wood.

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The portrait of the witty and learned Lazarus Spengler dates from the same year.

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A local doctor, by name Spengler, first noticed this fact about 1865, and the valley soon became famous.

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