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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
Synonyms:
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Germany"):
Chemnitz; Karl-Marx-Stadt (a city in east central Germany; formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990; noted for textile manufacturing)
Dortmund (an industrial city in northwestern Germany; flourished from the 13th to 17th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)
Dresden (a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945)
Leipzig (a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center)
Solingen (a city in west central Germany noted for cutlery)
Weimar (a German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933)
Bavaria (a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory)
Hamelin; Hameln (a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper)
Bonn (a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989)
Cologne; Koln (a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)
Braunschweig; Brunswick (a city in central Germany)
Dusseldorf (an industrial city in western Germany on the Rhine)
Essen (a city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr)
Frankfort; Frankfurt; Frankfurt on the Main (a German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center)
Halle; Halle-an-der-Saale (a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries)
Hamburg (a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League)
Hannover; Hanover (a port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League)
Lubeck (a city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port; a leading member of the Hanseatic League)
Mannheim (a city in southwestern Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers)
Nuremberg; Nurnberg (a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46))
Potsdam (a city in northeastern Germany; site of the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945)
Rostock (a city in northeastern Germany near the Baltic sea; an important member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century)
Stuttgart (a city in southwestern Germany famous for innovative architecture)
Wuerzburg; Wurzburg (a city of south central Germany)
Rheinland; Rhineland (a picturesque region of Germany around the Rhine river)
Palatinate; Pfalz (a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine)
Preussen; Prussia (a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland)
Ruhr; Ruhr Valley (a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany)
Buchenwald (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany)
Dachau (a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany)
Weser; Weser River (a river in northwestern Germany that flows northward to the North Sea near Bremerhaven)
Siegfried line (German fortifications facing the Maginot Line)
Saale; Saale River (a river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River)
Ruhr; Ruhr River (a tributary of the Rhine)
Rhein; Rhine; Rhine River (a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea)
Oder; Oder River (a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea)
Neckar; Neckar River (a river in Germany; rises in the Black Forest and flows north into the Rhine)
Danau; Danube; Danube River (the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea)
Bremerhaven (a port city in northwestern Germany at the mouth of the Weser River on the North Sea; has a deep natural harbor and is an important shipping center)
Bremen (a city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the North Sea; in the Middle Ages it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League)
Berlin; German capital (capital of Germany located in eastern Germany)
Aachen; Aix-la-Chapelle; Aken (a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital)
Lower Saxony (a state in northwestern Germany)
Thuringia (a historical region of southern Germany)
Frisian Islands (a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland)
Bodensee; Constance; Lake Constance (a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River)
Meronyms (members of "Germany"):
German (a person of German nationality)
Sorbian (a speaker of Sorbian)
Domain member region:
Black Forest; Schwarzwald (a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany)
Teuton (someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language)
Brownshirt (a member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms)
margrave (a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess))
one million million million; trillion (the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros)
quadrillion (the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros)
Oktoberfest (an autumn festival that involves merrymaking and drinking beer)
Blenheim (the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession)
Battle of Jena; Jena (the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians)
battle of Lutzen; Lutzen (a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed)
battle of Minden; Minden (a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French)
battle of Rossbach; Rossbach (a battle in the Seven Years' War (1757); Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated the armies of France and Austria)
battle of Teutoburger Wald; Teutoburger Wald (a battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions)
panzer (an armored vehicle or tank)
Hakenkreuz; swastika (the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction)
German; German language; High German (the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic)
Schadenfreude (delight in another person's misfortune)
Weissbier; wheat beer; white beer (a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent)
liebfraumilch (a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany))
Norse mythology (the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity)
al-Tawhid; Al Tawhid; Divine Unity (an Islamic terrorist cell that originated in Jordan but operates in Germany; goal is to attack Europe and Russia with chemical weapons)
Baader-Meinhof Gang; Baader Meinhof Gang (a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977)
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities; Caliphate State; Kaplan Group (a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran)
RAF; Red Army Faction (a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998)
Pietism (17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion)
Holonyms ("Germany" is a part of...):
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Holonyms ("Germany" is a member of...):
Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)
NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)
Context examples:
He did come very soon, for the same mail brought letters to them both, but he was in Germany, and it took some days to reach him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The researchers from France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United Sates modelled the dynamics of SCMV and MCMV infection within and between maize growing periods, either during the long- or short-rain growing seasons.
(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)
I have done a good deal of business in Germany in the past and my name is probably familiar to you.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Distributed feedback patterns to rewards predict heightened pain sensitivity, according to the new research led by Frauke Nees, PhD, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
(Study in Teens Shows Brain Responses to Rewards Linked to Pain Sensitivity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A country in western Europe, between France, Belgium, and Germany.
(Luxembourg, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in Western Europe, between France, Belgium, and Germany.
(Luxembourg, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Denotes the inhabitants of Germany, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.
(German, NCI Thesaurus)
The ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews lived in Central and Eastern Europe (e.g., Germany, Poland, Russia).
(Ashkenazi Jews, NCI Dictionary)
The pact for the protected area in the Ross Sea covers more than 1.55 million square kilometers, about the size of Britain, Germany and France combined.
(Deal Reached to Create World's Largest Marine Reserve in Antarctica, VOA News)
