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GERMAN-SPEAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does German-speaking mean?
• GERMAN-SPEAKING (adjective)
The adjective GERMAN-SPEAKING has 1 sense:
1. able to communicate in German
Familiarity information: GERMAN-SPEAKING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to communicate in German
Similar:
communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)
Context examples
It is in a German-speaking country—in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. ‘Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass-factories and paper-mills.’ Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of that?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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