(historical) A country created following World War I as the initial rump state for areas with a predominantly German-speaking population within what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Of, from, or pertaining to West Germany.

Person who comes from or lives in West Germany.

(circus arts) An apparatus made up of two large, usually steel rings joined together by a set of parallel steel bars. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see German, wheel.

plural of cousin-german

(linguistics) The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.

Of or relating to these languages.

Of or relating to the East Germanic languages, a subdivision of the Germanic languages.

A nearly extinct West Germanic language (group of Central German dialects), formerly spoken in Silesia, chiefly Lower Silesia (now Poland), and among the expellee community in Germany (now chiefly elderly people).

Relating to the Pennsylvania Germans or their language.