Meaning of German | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A near relative.
   obsolete
2. An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement.
3. An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium.
   uncountable
4. A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality
5. A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.
   countable
6. A social party at which the german is danced.
7. A surname.
8. A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent
9. A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent.
   countable, uncountable
10. A member of a Germanic tribe.
    countable, historical, uncountable
11. A number of townships in the United States, listed under German Township.
12. A member of a Germanic tribe
13. A German wine.
    countable, uncountable
14. A parish of the sheading of Glenfaba, Isle of Man.
15. A German wine
16. A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+¹⁄₂-point type.
    US, dated, rare, uncountable
17. A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+⁄2-point type
18. A Germany-produced car, a “German whip”.
    Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable
19. A prison warder.
    British, countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.”

“[…] tie them tightly in a thickly floured cloth, and boil them for three hours and a half. We can recommend this as a remarkably light small rich pudding : it may be served with German, wine, or punch sauce.”

“The wine list harbours some great bottles, mature clarets and Burgundies as well as a clutch of fine Germans (gold-dust these days in restaurants) […]”

“In my German, they calling me a baller (skrr) Got me feeling like Özil”

“There are some 32 different terms for prison officers, from the humorously affectionate kanga(rhyming slang:kangaroo = screw) and the variants Scooby-Doo and Dr. Who via the mildly confrontational German (as if still the enemy over 50 years after World War II!) to the outright abuse of shit-parcel.”

“Meronyms: Low German (Plattdeutsch), High German”

“German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.”

“One of my German teachers used to joke that it takes you a year to say, “I’m traveling on the bus,” but once you’re on that bus, it’s plain sailing.”

“Which when his german saw, the stony feare / Ran to his hart, and all his sence dismayd […]”

“Through the years, though, the german was replaced by new and more popular dances, but in many instances the name stayed on.”

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