German

Meaning

Noun

1. A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.
2. A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent.
3. A member of a Germanic tribe.
4. A German wine.
5. A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+¹⁄₂-point type.
6. (slang) A Germany-produced car, a “German whip”.
7. (slang) A prison warder.

Name

1. An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium.
2. A surname.
3. A number of townships in the United States, listed under German Township.

Adj

1. Of or relating to the nation of Germany.
2. Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent.
3. Of, in or relating to the German language.

Synonyms

German language

Teuton

High German

Germanic

Dutch

🇳🇱/🇨🇼/🇸🇽/🇧🇶

sib

German person

IBM

Jerry

Kraut

old German

𐐖𐐲𐑉𐑋𐑌𐐲

newspeak

Deutsch

Prussian swine

Hun

Standard German

Germany

kraut

Hyphenated as

Ger‧man

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɜː.mən/

Etymology

From Latin Germānus, Germānī (“the peoples of Germānia”), as distinct from Gauls (in the writings of Caesar and Tacitus), and of uncertain ultimate origin (possibly Celtic/Gaulish).
Not related to german (“closely related”) or germane (from the Latin adjective germānus, through Old French).
Attested since at least 1520. Replaced the older terms Almain and Dutch (from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz) in English. Besides cognates of German, Almain, and Dutch, two other categories of words for the Germans in other languages are cognates of Saxon and descendants of Proto-Slavic *němьcь; see those entries for more.
The surname is generally from the noun, though sometimes confused with Herman, Hermann under Russian influence. As a German surname, Americanized from Germann. Compare Germán, Germain, Jerman.

Sentences

They were initially connected to the German krautrock scene .

By the next night , the German ships had withdrawn , and " Australia " returned to Rosyth .

For the first KdF trips , the German cruise companies mostly chartered older passenger ships .

Generally adapted from passenger liners , they were larger than the German merchant raiders .