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Instanz.

legal authority

7 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. legal authority

    feminine
    Der Bundesgerichtshof ist die oberste gerichtliche Instanz für Strafverfahren in Deutschland.
    in erster Instanz entscheiden
  2. legal authority authority, entity (any agency, person or level in a hierarchy considered to have authority over a situation)

    broadly · feminine
  3. instance (specific occurence or realization)

    especially · feminine
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin īnstantia (“perseverence, urgency”), first referring to the pursuit of a legal matter, then the office responsible for that pursuit. The technological sense is a later semantic loan from English instance.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.