Belsenn.

Brit.

/ˈbɛlsn/, U.S.

/ˈbɛlsən/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Belsen.

Etymology: < Belsen (more fully Bergen-Belsen), the name of a concentration camp in northern Germany between 1943–5 and of the place in which it was located (part of the municipality of Bergen, then in the province of Hanover, now in Lower Saxony).

I. Compounds.

1. attributive. Of, relating to, or reminiscent of the Belsen concentration camp established in Germany by the Nazis during the Second World War (1939–45), esp. in respect of its horrendousness, horror, or cruelty.The camp was established in 1943, initially as a prisoner of war camp, and was later used as a civilian holding and transit camp. It was not an extermination camp; prisoners died of starvation, exhaustion, and disease. The camp was liberated by British forces in 1945.

ΚΠ

1945 Times 11 May 4/4 The colonel arrived. He had a ‘Belsen face’.

1947 Irish Times 17 May 6/5 Events of national importance, such as the Belsen trials and the capitulation of Japan, are mentioned in their proper place.

1953 L. A. G. Strong Hill of Howth ix. 194 It was a Belsen urge, a blast from the pit.

2000 J. Harding What We did on Our Holiday iv. 110 ‘He looks like a Belsen victim,’ says Mum, without moderating the volume of her voice.

II. Simple uses.

2. Applied hyperbolically to a place, institution, situation, etc., likened to the Belsen concentration camp (see sense 1), esp. in respect of its horrendousness, horror, or cruelty.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement > concentration camp > specific

Belsen1945

1945 D. Thomas Let. 30 July (1987) 557 Many thanks..for your own book of poems. You've let down your hair hard and loud on the one real ground, and sometimes you fall over it into a boiling black Belsen of your own.

1956 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby plays Chicken i. i. 16 My public school was a regular old Belsen.

2001 D. Peace Nineteen Eighty vi. 111 Burned-black stone and the picked-grey bone of an Auschwitz, a Belsen.

Derivatives

ˈBelsen-type adj.

ΚΠ

1959 News Chron. 12 Dec. 7/1 Allegations about ‘hoodlum warders’ with ‘Belsen-type mentalities’ at Exeter prison.

1989 Times 25 Oct. 11/1 MPs say that there is ample evidence that bitches on hundreds of unlicensed puppy farms..are often ill fed, kept in cages and cars, sometimes living in excreta and ‘Belsen-type’ conditions.

2005 C. Chance Lone Brit on 13 v. 68 Belsen-type sleeping quarters were arranged, metal cots stacked four high, twelve cots to a room.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	belsen
释义	Belsenn. Brit. /ˈbɛlsn/, U.S. /ˈbɛlsən/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Belsen. Etymology: < Belsen (more fully Bergen-Belsen), the name of a concentration camp in northern Germany between 1943–5 and of the place in which it was located (part of the municipality of Bergen, then in the province of Hanover, now in Lower Saxony). I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Of, relating to, or reminiscent of the Belsen concentration camp established in Germany by the Nazis during the Second World War (1939–45), esp. in respect of its horrendousness, horror, or cruelty.The camp was established in 1943, initially as a prisoner of war camp, and was later used as a civilian holding and transit camp. It was not an extermination camp; prisoners died of starvation, exhaustion, and disease. The camp was liberated by British forces in 1945. ΚΠ 1945 Times 11 May 4/4 The colonel arrived. He had a ‘Belsen face’. 1947 Irish Times 17 May 6/5 Events of national importance, such as the Belsen trials and the capitulation of Japan, are mentioned in their proper place. 1953 L. A. G. Strong Hill of Howth ix. 194 It was a Belsen urge, a blast from the pit. 2000 J. Harding What We did on Our Holiday iv. 110 ‘He looks like a Belsen victim,’ says Mum, without moderating the volume of her voice. II. Simple uses. 2. Applied hyperbolically to a place, institution, situation, etc., likened to the Belsen concentration camp (see sense 1), esp. in respect of its horrendousness, horror, or cruelty. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement > concentration camp > specific Belsen1945 1945 D. Thomas Let. 30 July (1987) 557 Many thanks..for your own book of poems. You've let down your hair hard and loud on the one real ground, and sometimes you fall over it into a boiling black Belsen of your own. 1956 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby plays Chicken i. i. 16 My public school was a regular old Belsen. 2001 D. Peace Nineteen Eighty vi. 111 Burned-black stone and the picked-grey bone of an Auschwitz, a Belsen. Derivatives ˈBelsen-type adj. ΚΠ 1959 News Chron. 12 Dec. 7/1 Allegations about ‘hoodlum warders’ with ‘Belsen-type mentalities’ at Exeter prison. 1989 Times 25 Oct. 11/1 MPs say that there is ample evidence that bitches on hundreds of unlicensed puppy farms..are often ill fed, kept in cages and cars, sometimes living in excreta and ‘Belsen-type’ conditions. 2005 C. Chance Lone Brit on 13 v. 68 Belsen-type sleeping quarters were arranged, metal cots stacked four high, twelve cots to a room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1945
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