[jur-muh
n] 
| 1. | having the same father and mother, as a full brother or sister (usually used in combination): a brother-german. |
| 2. | born of the brother or sister of one's father or mother, as a first cousin (usually used in combination): a cousin-german. |
| 3. | Archaic. germane. |
[jur-muhn] | 1. | of or pertaining to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language. |
| 2. | a native or inhabitant of Germany. |
| 3. | a descendant of a native of Germany. |
| 4. | Also called High German. an Indo-European language that is based on a High German dialect, is official in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and is also widely used as an international language for scholarship and science. Abbreviation: G, G. |
| 5. | Linguistics. any variety of West Germanic speech native to Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. |
| 6. | (usually lowercase) an elaborate social dance resembling a cotillion. |
| 7. | (lowercase) New England and South Atlantic States. a dancing party featuring the german. |
| ger·man 1 (jûr'mən) n.
[Short for German cotillion.] |
| ger·man 2 (jûr'mən) adj. Having the same parents or the same grandparents on either the mother's or the father's side. Often used in combination: a cousin-german; a brother-german. [Middle English germain, from Old French, from Latin germānus, from germen, offshoot; see genə- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Ger·man (jûr'mən) adj.
[Middle English, from Latin Germānus.] |
German human language
\j*r'mn\ A human language written (in latin alphabet) and spoken in Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland.
German writing normally uses four non-ASCII characters: "äöüß", the first three have "umlauts" (two dots over the top): A O and U and the last is a double-S ("scharfes S") which looks like the Greek letter beta (except in capitalised words where it should be written "SS"). These can be written in ASCII in several ways, the most common are ae, oe ue AE OE UE ss or sz and the TeX versions "a "o "u "A "O "U "s.
See also ABEND, blinkenlights, DAU, DIN, gedanken, GMD, kluge.
Usenet newsgroup: soc.culture.german. (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/soc.answers/german-faq), (ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/dictionaries/german.dat.Z).
(1995-03-31)