German
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
German/ˈʤəːmən/
▶noun
- 1 a native or national of Germany, or a person of German descent.
- 2 the West Germanic language of Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland.
– derivatives
Germanist noun,
Germanization (or Germanisation) noun,
Germanize (or Germanise) verb.
Germanist noun,
Germanization (or Germanisation) noun,
Germanize (or Germanise) verb.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
german/ˈʤəːmən/
▶adjective archaic germane.
– origin ME: from OFr. germain, from L. germanus ‘genuine, of the same parents’.
'German' also found in these Oxford entries:
aldrin
- allemande
- Alsatian
- Alzheimer's disease
- antinomian
- Auslese
- Autobahn
- Baedeker
- bandoneon
- Bavarian
- Beethovenian
- bergenia
- Biedermeier
- bilharzia
- blitz
- Boche
- bock
- Bode's law
- born
- bratwurst
- Brechtian
- brother-german
- Bunsen burner
- burgomaster
- burgrave
- cambazola
- carnallite
- cognate
- cousin-german
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
- crop
- darmstadtium
- dative
- DAX
- DDR
- degauss
- Deutschmark
- dieffenbachia
- dieldrin
- diesel
- DIN
- Dobermann
- dollar
- Dr Martens
- Duralumin
- Dutch
- E-boat
- Einstein
- elector
- electorate
