| 1. | the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland. |
| 2. | Also called Pennsylvania German. a dialect of High German with an admixture of English spoken mainly in eastern Pennsylvania, developed from the language of these settlers. |
| 3. | the folk style of applied and decorative art developed by the Pennsylvania Dutch. |

| Pennsylvania Dutch n.
[Alteration of German Deutsch, German; see Plattdeutsch.] |