Alamanni

Noun

Alemanni pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.
   • The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen ; to denote at once their various lineage, and their common bravery.1846, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, page 271
2. (plural, plural-only) Those individuals descended from one of the Alemanni tribes.
   • On the basis of their location along the Rhine River during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I have concluded that my ancestors were Alemanni and Franks, though lacking in ethnic purity.2011 October 1, Richard J. Gehman, “Reflections on our Germanic Mennonite Heritage”, in Bible Fellowship Church Online History Center, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2020

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