German Definition

jûrmən
noun
A party for dancing at which this dance is featured.
American Heritage
A person born or living in Germany.
Webster's New World
A complicated dance for many couples in which partners are changed often.
Webster's New World
The West Germanic language spoken chiefly in Germany, Austria, and certain parts of Switzerland, technically called New High German.
Webster's New World
A party at which the german is danced.
Webster's New World
pronoun

An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium.

German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.
Wiktionary
adjective
Closely related: now chiefly in compounds, meaning.
Webster's New World
Having the same parents or the same grandparents on either the mother's or the father's side. Often used in combination.
A cousin-german; a brother-german.
American Heritage
Of Germany or its people, language, or culture.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the German language.
American Heritage
1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.2.
The phrase would bee more Germaine.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of German

Noun

Singular:
german
Plural:
germans

Origin of German

  • Not related to the Latin adjective germānus (whence the English words german and germane, through Old French). Attested since at least 1520. Replaced the older terms Almain and Dutch in English.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin Germanus, Germani (“the peoples of Germania”), as distinct from Gauls (in the writings of Caesar and Tacitus), and of uncertain ultimate origin (possibly Celtic/Gaulish).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Old French germain, from Latin germānus. See also germane, a formal variant which has survived in specific senses. Not related to the proper noun German.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English germain from Old French from Latin germānus from germen offshoot genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Latin Germānus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Short for German cotillion

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From German (“of Germany”).

    From Wiktionary

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