german
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Is german a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of german?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.countable
2. (historical) A member of a Germanic tribe.Examples: "Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed."Synonyms: Teutoncountablehistoricaluncountable
3. (uncountable, US printing, rare, dated) A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+¹⁄₂-point type.USdatedrareuncountable
4. (MLE, slang) A Germany-produced car, a “German whip”.Examples: "In my German, they calling me a baller (skrr) Got me feeling like Özil"Multicultural-London-Englishcountableslanguncountable
5. (British, slang) A prison warder.Examples: "There are some 32 different terms for prison officers, from the humorously affectionate kanga(rhyming slang:kangaroo = screw) and the variants Scooby-Doo and Dr. Who via the mildly confrontational German (as if still the enemy over 50 years after World War II!) to the outright abuse of shit-parcel."Britishcountableslanguncountable
name (English)
1. (uncountable) An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium.Examples: "Meronyms: Low German (Plattdeutsch), High German"; "German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter."; "One of my German teachers used to joke that it takes you a year to say, “I’m traveling on the bus,” but once you’re on that bus, it’s plain sailing."Synonyms: Deutschuncountable
adj (English)
1. (obsolete except in set terms) Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister).Examples: "brother-german"
2. (obsolete except in set terms) Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin).Examples: "cousin-german"; "The doubtfull wordes whereof they scan and canvas to an fro. Which done, Prometheus sonne began by counsell wise and sage"
3. (obsolete) Closely related, akin.Examples: "After this Merlyn told vnto kynge Arthur of the prophecye / that there shold be a grete batail besyde Salysbury and Mordred his owne sone sholde be ageynste hym / Also he tolde hym that Basdemegus was his cosyn and germayn vnto kynge Vryence"; "The phrase would bee more Germaine."; "Wert thou a Leopard, thou wert Germane to the Lion."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A near relative.Examples: "Which when his german saw, the stony feare / Ran to his hart, and all his sence dismayd […]"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary