Associations to the word «Hindenburg»

Wiktionary

HINDENBURG, proper noun. The German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship that was destroyed by fire on May 6, 1937.

Dictionary definition

HINDENBURG, noun. German field marshal and statesman; as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope