A nearly extinct West Germanic language (group of Central German dialects), formerly spoken in Silesia, chiefly Lower Silesia (now Poland), and among the expellee community in Germany (now chiefly elderly people).

Like or resembling the German people, their language, or their culture; Germanish.

(circus arts) An apparatus made up of two large, usually steel rings joined together by a set of parallel steel bars. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see German, wheel.

plural of cousin-german

(inorganic chemistry) germanium dioxide, GeO₂

(linguistics) Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English; Proto-Germanic.

Alternative letter-case form of German Question

(chiefly historical) The question of which historically German(-speaking, -inhabited, and/or -ruled) areas — particularly of whether northern German areas and Austria or only northern German areas — should constitute a unified German state.

plural of sister-german

plural of brother-german