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Definition of Teuton
1. Noun. Someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language.
Generic synonyms: German
2. Noun. A member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans.
Generic synonyms: European
Specialized synonyms: Goth
Definition of Teuton
1. n. One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race.
Definition of Teuton
1. Noun. A member of an early Germanic tribe noted in historical writings by Greek and Roman authors. ¹
2. Noun. A German. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teuton
Literary usage of Teuton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1851)
"And if a new universe rise to our view, The sons of the teuton will conquer ...
And why stands the teuton alone in his might? Why claims he thus proudly to ..."
2. The Problem of Asia and Its Effect Upon International Policies by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1905)
"The teuton, under the three great national heads, possesses the sea, from which the
... The teuton is inferior in land power, for, in all his branches and ..."
3. The Problem of Asia and Its Effect Upon International Policies by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1900)
"The teuton, under the three great national heads, possesses the sea, from which the
... The teuton is inferior in land power, for, in all his branches and ..."
4. Text-book of School and Class Management by Felix Arnold (1908)
"teuton. — By the teuton I mean those people in England, Germany, America, and
Australia who have come from a common stock. ..."
5. A History of Crime in England: Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the by Luke Owen Pike (1873)
"One of the most important points in which the rulers of England before the Norman
Conquest differed from The teuton the primitive Germans of Tacitus was the ..."
6. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century by Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1911)
"... or what chemical affinity means, than I did when I delivered my first lecture."
These are the words of an honest, truthful, thorough teuton, ..."
7. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"So long as Celt and teuton are in their embryo rudimentary state, or, at least,
no such great while out of their cradle, still engaged in their wanderings, ..."
8. Patriotism, National and International: An Essay by Charles Waldstein, Charles Walston (1917)
"teuton and Slav. German Weltpolitik Driven still further afield, we may realise
that the war was, with some justice, regarded as the struggle between teuton ..."
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