German definition
- Having the same parents.A brother-german.
- Having the same grandparents on either the father's side or the mother's.A cousin-german is a first cousin.
Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion.
A cousin-german; a brother-german.
An example of German used as an adjective is German food, such as weiner schnitzel.
An example of a German is Heidi Klum.
An example of German is standard High German.
The phrase would bee more Germaine.
Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.
German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.
Her German husband has blond hair.
We take German classes twice a week.
Because the instructions were German, Yves couldn't read them.
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Noun
Origin of german
- 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
- 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.
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- From German (“of Germany”).
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