Noun | 1. | German - a person of German nationality |
2. | German - the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic Synonyms: German language, High German | |
Adj. | 1. | German - of or pertaining to or characteristic of Germany or its people or language; "German philosophers"; "German universities"; "German literature" |
2. | German - of a more or less German nature; somewhat German; "Germanic peoples"; "his Germanic nature"; "formidable volumes Teutonic in their thoroughness" |
GERMAN, relations, germanus. Whole or entire, as respects genealogy or descent; thus, "brother-german," denotes one who is brother both by the father and mother's side cousins-germane" those in the first and nearest degree, i. e., children of brothers or sisters. Tech. Dict.; 4 M. & C. 56.
(human language) | German - \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: "äöüß", 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. |