Teutons

Noun

Teuton (plural Teutons)

1. (historical) A member of an early Germanic tribe living in Jutland noted in historical writings by Greek and Roman authors.
   • The difference between the Clergy and the Teuton conquerors was more than a difference of creed, or of civilization. It was an actual difference of race. They were Romans, to whom the Teuton was a savage, speaking a different tongue, obeying different laws, his whole theory of the universe...1864, Charles Kingsley, The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, page 220
2. (historical) A member of the Teutonic Order.
   • The third threat, from the Teutonic Knights of Germany, was the worst, because the Crusader Teutons wanted not only Russian land but also to kill off the people of Russia because they were a different kind of Christian from them!2008, K. M. Lucchese, Folk Like Me: The Read-Aloud Book of Saints, page 51
3. A member of any Germanic language-speaking people, especially a German.
   • In the first place, a prolonged struggle in the North Temperate Zone, with a harsh, though not a depressing, natural environment, endows the Teuton with unusual energy and initiative. Then centuries of wanderings in which the strong set forth and the weak and timid stay behind, brings the Teuton to...1901, Edward Alsworth Ross, Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order, published 2009, page 16

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