Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of Germany or its people, language, or culture.
- adjective Of or relating to the Teutons.
- adjective Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that comprises North Germanic, West Germanic, and the extinct East Germanic.
- adjective Of or relating to a member of a Germanic-speaking people.
- noun The Germanic branch of Indo-European.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to Germany or the Germans.
- In a wider sense, of or belonging to the peoples of Germany and their kindred, or to their institutions; Teutonic.
- noun The language of the Teutonic or Germanic peoples. See
Teutonic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Germany.
- adjective A loose sense Teutonic.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun linguistics The early, undocumented language from which other Germanic languages such as
German ,English ,Dutch andScandinavian languages developed. - proper noun linguistics The group of
Indo-European languages that developed from Germanic. - adjective Having
German characteristics. - adjective Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or
Anglo-Saxons ). - adjective linguistics Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic
- adjective of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages
- adjective of or relating to the language of Germans
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would suggest that outside the realm of jokes between folks who are interested in Germanic languages, it would be an abuse of such things ....
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I would suggest that outside the realm of jokes between folks who are interested in Germanic languages, it would be an abuse of such things ....
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The truth is, apologies to Teutonic types, certain Germanic phonemes just grate on the ears to those used to the mellifluous sounds of Romance languages.
What's In a Name? If It's Blaufrankisch, More Than You Think 2009
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If something Germanic is required, think Prussian: Hasso, Jesko, etc.
Name My Dog 2008
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: - P I do hope to interest more lay people in Germanic literature and language issues through my own blog, which is ultimately just my way of keeping my finger in the Black Forest cake of Germanic studies.
Beowulf Hobbyists of the World, Unite! Richard Nokes 2006
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More strictly, however, it denoted secret murder, which in Germanic antiquity was alone regarded as (in the modern sense) a crime, open homicide being considered a private wrong calling for blood-revenge or compensation.
Excerpt: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 1998
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The Roman civilization, church, language, and law are the chief elements in Germanic civilization.
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"A Documented Presence: Medieval Women in Germanic Historiography."
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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What’s my point with this digression in Germanic morphology?
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What’s my point with this digression in Germanic morphology?
Preposterous Apostrophes VI: A Wrinkle « Motivated Grammar 2007
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