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germanic

/d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/US/d͡ʒɝˈmæn.ɪk/

germanic adjective: of or containing germanium.

Adjective (1)

germanic (not comparable)

  1. Of or containing germanium.
  2. Containing germanium with a valence of 4.

Proper noun capitalized: Germanic

Germanic

  1. The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed, such as Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, English, German, Faroese, Icelandic, Yiddish, Norwegian and Swedish.
    • Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos.2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2022
  2. The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

Adjective (2) capitalized: Germanic

Germanic (comparative more Germanic, superlative most Germanic)

  1. Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
    • a Germanic tribe
  2. Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
    • a Germanic language
    • Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii
    Synonyms:
    Teutonic
  3. (proscribed, sometimes) Having German characteristics.
    • He arrived with Germanic punctuality.
    Synonyms:
    German, Teutonic

Noun capitalized: Germanic

Germanic (plural Germanics)

  1. (historical, nonstandard) Synonym of German (“member of a Germanic tribe”)
    Synonyms:
    German

germanic meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi

germanic in Hindi

जर्मनिक

germanic in Marathi

जर्मनिक

germanic in Bengali

জার্মেনিয়ামের, জার্মেনিয়াম ধারণকারী

germanic in Punjabi

ਜਰਮਨਿਕ, ਜਰਮਨਕ
More languagesFewer languages
germanic in Gujarati
જર્મનિક
germanic in Pashto
المانی almānáy

Synonyms of germanic

Forms of germanic

Adjective
comparativemore Germanic
superlativemost Germanic
Noun
pluralGermanics

Origin of germanic

From germanium + -ic.

Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus, equivalent to German + -ic.

Words formed from germanic

Phrases with germanic

Questions about germanic

What does germanic mean?
Germanic means of or containing germanium.
What is germanic in Hindi?
Germanic in Hindi is जर्मनिक. See Germanic meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is germanic?
Germanic can be an adjective, a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce germanic?
Germanic is pronounced /d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/ (UK).

Words near germanic in the dictionary

  1. Germanesque
  2. Germanest
  3. Germanhood
  4. Germania
  5. germanian
  6. germanic
  7. germanic acid
  8. germanic acids
  9. Germanic h
  10. Germanic h's
  11. Germanic New Medicine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: germanic (page history and authors); Germanic (page history and authors); germanic (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); germanic (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); germanic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); germanic (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); germanic (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); المانی (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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