German

adj. of German origin, of or pertaining to Germany

n. native of Germany, resident of Germany

n. German language

adj. closely related; having the same father and mother (Archaic)

German or Germans may refer to:Germany, a country in west-central EuropeGermans, the ethnic group sharing a common German culture, speaking the German language as a mother tongue and being of German descentThe German languageIn some/older English translations of ancient Roman texts, used synonymously with "Germanic", but referring to the Germanic tribes rather than the Germans, who did not exist at the time.
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Noun
1. a person of German nationality
(hypernym) European
(hyponym) Teuton
(member-holonym) Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Deutschland, FRG
2. the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic
(synonym) High German, German language
(hypernym) West Germanic, West Germanic language
(hyponym) Old High German
(classification) Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Deutschland, FRG
Adjective
1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of Germany or its people or language; "German philosophers"; "German universities"; "German literature"
(pertainym) Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Deutschland, FRG
2. of a more or less German nature; somewhat German; "Germanic peoples"; "his Germanic nature"; "formidable volumes Teutonic in their thoroughness"
(synonym) Germanic, Teutonic
(pertainym) Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Deutschland, FRG

(n.)
The German language.
  

(n.)
Of or pertaining to Germany.
  

(n.)
A social party at which the german is danced.
  

(n.)
A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.
  

(n.)
A native or one of the people of Germany.
  

(a.)
Nearly related; closely akin.
  

<human language> \j*r'mn\ A human language written (in latin alphabet) and spoken in Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland.
German writing normally uses four non-ASCII characters: "", the first three have "umlauts" (two dots over the top): A O and U and the last is a double-S ("scharfes S") which looks like the Greek letter beta (except in capitalised words where it should be written "SS"). These can be written in ASCII in several ways, the most common are ae, oe ue AE OE UE ss or sz and the TeX versions "a "o "u "A "O "U "s.
See also ABEND, blinkenlights, DAU, DIN, gedanken, GMD, kluge.
Usenet newsgroup: news:soc.culture.german. ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/soc.answers/german-faq, ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/dictionaries/german.dat.Z.
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