Germany
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈdÍ¡Ê’ÉœË.mÉ™.nɪ/
- US IPA: /ˈdÍ¡Ê’É.mÉ™.ni/
Origin
From Latin Germania; likely a /Gaulish term for the peoples west of the Rhine that meant “neighborâ€.
"German", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Ed. T. F. Hoad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed March 4, 2008.
Full definition of Germany
Proper noun
Germany
(plural Germanys)- The country in Central Europe of which Berlin is the current and historical capital city. Current official name: Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland).
- 1996, Paul Bookbinder, Weimar Germany: the republic of the reasonable (ISBN 0719042879), page 90Severing's belief that trade union workers were the most progressive and democratic element in Germany holds up well under investigation.
- (countable, historical, in reference to any period when Germany was not united) A German state; any of several German states, such as the German Democratic Republic, Saxony, etc, usually excluding Austria. (in the plural) Several or all of these states, taken together.
- 1987, Henry Ashby Turner, The Two Germanies Since 1945 (ISBN 0300038658)
- 2007, William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University (ISBN 0226109224), page 84:The differences between England and the Germanies sprang from the absence or presence of ministerial interventions.
- 2010, Ilan Stavans, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez: The Early Years (ISBN 0312240333):They were also accompanied by Luis Villar Bordo, whom GarcÃa Márquez had met during his student years at the Universidad Nacional de Bogotá. In a Renault 14, they drove from one Germany to the other, ...
- (countable) A or the German state at a particular time.The Germany of his children was not the Germany of his forefathers.One Germany faded and another emerged.