Meaning of Alemanni | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.
   plural, plural-only
2. Those individuals descended from one of the Alemanni tribes.
   plural, plural-only

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Examples

“The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen ; to denote at once their various lineage, and their common bravery.”

“The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained a loosely knit confederation of tribes in the Suebi group (see Suebi).”

“On the basis of their location along the Rhine River during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I have concluded that my ancestors were Alemanni and Franks, though lacking in ethnic purity.”

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