Germanism
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Noun
Germanism (countable and uncountable, plural Germanisms)
- (countable, rhetoric) A word or idiom of the German language (that has been borrowed by another language).
- 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 446:
- He employs the Lithuanian Yiddish idiom with some Germanisms.
- (usually uncountable) The culture and customs of the Germanic people (or tribes).
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Coordinate terms
foreignismsedit
- Akkadianism / Akkadism
- Americanism
- Amharism
- Anglicism
- Arabism
- Aramaism / Aramaicism / Arameanism / Aramism
- Armenism
- Australianism
- Batavism
- Belorussianism
- Bengalism
- Briticism
- Bulgarism
- Catalanism
- Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism
- Croatism
- Czechism / Bohemism / Bohemianism
- Gaelicism
- Gallicism / Frenchism
- Germanism / Teutonism
- Grecism / Hellenism
- Hebraism / Hebraicism
- Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism
- Hungarianism / Magyarism
- Indianism
- Iranianism
- Irishism
- Italianism / Italicism
- Japanism
- Kazakhism
- Latinism
- Macedonianism / Macedonism
- Mandaism
- Moravianism
- New Zealandism
- Persianism
- Phoenicianism
- Polonism
- Portuguesism / Lusitanism
- Russianism
- Scotticism
- Semitism
- Serbism
- Serbo-Croatism
- Sinicism
- Slavism, Slavicism, Slavoidism
- Slovenism / Pannonianism
- Sumerianism / Sumerism
- Syriacism
- Turkism
- Ugaritism
- Ukrainism / Ukrainianism
- Uzbekism
- Yiddishism
Translations
a word or idiom of the German language
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culture, and customs of Germanic peoples — see also Teutonism
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