CDU

English

Noun

CDU (plural CDUs)

  1. (petrochemistry) Initialism of crude distillation unit.

Proper noun

CDU

  1. (German politics) Initialism of Christian Democratic Union (of Germany) (Christlich Demokratische Union) (a major mainstream German political party)
    • 2025 February 24, Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, “Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2025:
      “I am certain that this so-called ‘firewall’ will stop after this election,” AfD youth wing leader Hannes Gnauck told CNN Sunday evening. He added, “There will be a CDU after Friedrich Merz, and this CDU will have to work together with the AfD.”

Coordinate terms

Christlich Demokratische Union

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Anagrams

Dutch

Proper noun

CDU f

  1. (politics) initialism of Christen-Democraten Unie (the Union of Christian Democrats), a Dutch political party that existed from 1964 till 1982

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

die CDU f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der CDU)

  1. (German politics) CDU: initialism of Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Christian Democratic Union of Germany)
    • 2025 December 7, Uta Schleiermacher, “Rede von Michel Friedman: „Mit leuchtenden Augen für die Demokratie“”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 February 2026:
      Michel Friedman kritisierte die CDU dafür. „Vielleicht ärgern sich die Damen und Herren, dass wir es sind, die heute Walter Lübcke ein Andenken geben, was sie schon seit Langem in großer Öffentlichkeit, auch in Berlin, hätten tun können“, sagte er.
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Usage notes

Declension

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

Christlich Demokratische Union

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: CDU

See also

  • JU
  • Schwarzgeldaffäre