Teutonic
[tju:'tɔnik]
Definition
(adj.) of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages; 'Teutonic peoples such as Germans and Scandinavians and British'; 'Germanic mythology' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic.
(a.) Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages.
(n.) The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.
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Examples
- The commanderies of the Teutonic order, and of that of Malta, at forty per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Teutonic strain may be as strong or stronger than the Keltic in modern Ireland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We are Teutonic up here in Darkshire in another way. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They were defeated in 1905 in an attempt to establish a tariff wall on the Teutonic model. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were a Teutonic people, and we have already marked them crossing the Baltic in the map on page 301. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His face flushed with anger, and his brows knotted over his blue Teutonic eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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