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Definition of German language
1. Noun. The standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic.
Examples of category: Frau, Fraulein, Herr
Generic synonyms: West Germanic, West Germanic Language
Specialized synonyms: Old High German, Middle High German, Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch
Geographical relationships: Deutschland, Federal Republic Of Germany, Frg, Germany
Derivative terms: German, Germanic, Germanic
Lexicographical Neighbors of German Language
Literary usage of German language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1839)
"We can recommend this book to all those, and the number is increasing every day,
who think of attempting to master the difficulties of the German language. ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1871)
"Whatever reality the idea of German unity is susceptible of has been realised in
the German language. In old Father Arndt's famous song, which has waked a ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Ag is well known, it is in later centuries that almost all the eastern districts
have been recovered for the German language.1 The history of the German ..."
4. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"The church fathers knew that they could not adhere to the German language without
the loss of large numbers of communicants among the descendants of German ..."
5. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"Fichte found the highest expression of the German nation in the German language.
The German language, says Fichte, must be loved not only as the expression ..."
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