GERMANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Germany mean? 

• GERMANY (noun)
  The noun GERMANY has 1 sense:

1. a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990

  Familiarity information: GERMANY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERMANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Germany"):

Halle; Halle-an-der-Saale (a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries)

Dortmund (an industrial city in northwestern Germany; flourished from the 13th to 17th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)

Dresden (a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945)

Leipzig (a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center)

Solingen (a city in west central Germany noted for cutlery)

Weimar (a German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933)

Bavaria (a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory)

Hamelin; Hameln (a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper)

Bonn (a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989)

Cologne; Koln (a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)

Braunschweig; Brunswick (a city in central Germany)

Dusseldorf (an industrial city in western Germany on the Rhine)

Essen (a city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr)

Frankfort; Frankfurt; Frankfurt on the Main (a German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center)

Bremerhaven (a port city in northwestern Germany at the mouth of the Weser River on the North Sea; has a deep natural harbor and is an important shipping center)

Hamburg (a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League)

Hannover; Hanover (a port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League)

Lubeck (a city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port; a leading member of the Hanseatic League)

Mannheim (a city in southwestern Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers)

Nuremberg; Nurnberg (a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46))

Potsdam (a city in northeastern Germany; site of the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945)

Rostock (a city in northeastern Germany near the Baltic sea; an important member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century)

Stuttgart (a city in southwestern Germany famous for innovative architecture)

Wuerzburg; Wurzburg (a city of south central Germany)

Rheinland; Rhineland (a picturesque region of Germany around the Rhine river)

Palatinate; Pfalz (a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine)

Preussen; Prussia (a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland)

Ruhr; Ruhr Valley (a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany)

Thuringia (a historical region of southern Germany)

Siegfried line (German fortifications facing the Maginot Line)

Saale; Saale River (a river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River)

Ruhr; Ruhr River (a tributary of the Rhine)

Rhein; Rhine; Rhine River (a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea)

Oder; Oder River (a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea)

Neckar; Neckar River (a river in Germany; rises in the Black Forest and flows north into the Rhine)

Weser; Weser River (a river in northwestern Germany that flows northward to the North Sea near Bremerhaven)

Danau; Danube; Danube River (the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea)

Bodensee; Constance; Lake Constance (a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River)

Dachau (a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany)

Buchenwald (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany)

Frisian Islands (a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland)

Lower Saxony (a state in northwestern Germany)

Aachen; Aix-la-Chapelle; Aken (a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital)

Berlin; German capital (capital of Germany located in eastern Germany)

Bremen (a city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the North Sea; in the Middle Ages it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League)

Chemnitz; Karl-Marx-Stadt (a city in east central Germany; formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990; noted for textile manufacturing)

Meronyms (members of "Germany"):

German (a person of German nationality)

Sorbian (a speaker of Sorbian)

Domain member region:

Oktoberfest (an autumn festival that involves merrymaking and drinking beer)

one million million million; trillion (the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros)

margrave (a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess))

Brownshirt (a member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms)

Teuton (someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language)

Black Forest; Schwarzwald (a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany)

quadrillion (the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros)

German; German language; High German (the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic)

Blenheim (the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession)

Battle of Jena; Jena (the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians)

battle of Lutzen; Lutzen (a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed)

battle of Minden; Minden (a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French)

battle of Rossbach; Rossbach (a battle in the Seven Years' War (1757); Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated the armies of France and Austria)

battle of Teutoburger Wald; Teutoburger Wald (a battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions)

panzer (an armored vehicle or tank)

Hakenkreuz; swastika (the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction)

Pietism (17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion)

Schadenfreude (delight in another person's misfortune)

Weissbier; wheat beer; white beer (a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent)

liebfraumilch (a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany))

Norse mythology (the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity)

al-Tawhid; Al Tawhid; Divine Unity (an Islamic terrorist cell that originated in Jordan but operates in Germany; goal is to attack Europe and Russia with chemical weapons)

Baader-Meinhof Gang; Baader Meinhof Gang (a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977)

Association of Islamic Groups and Communities; Caliphate State; Kaplan Group (a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran)

RAF; Red Army Faction (a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998)

Holonyms ("Germany" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Holonyms ("Germany" is a member of...):

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)

 Context examples 

Even in Germany, a country experiencing negative growth rates over the last six years, the decrease rate slowed down in 2007-2008, from -0.15% to -0.12%.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

When they eventually appeared, they took their places in the front of a platform which already contained all the leading scientific men, not only of this country, but of France and of Germany.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuroscientists and psychologists in the UK and Germany have identified mechanisms within the brain that they say help explain how this phenomenon occurs.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

A country in central Europe, southeast of Germany and southwest of Poland.

(Czech Republic, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers, in collaboration with colleagues in the UK and Germany, explored the molecular mechanism that provides ductal cells with this power to regenerate the liver tissue.

(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)

To gain insight into this process, a team led by Dr. Jens Titze at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany took the opportunity to study men participating in a simulated space flight program.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)

Astronomers led by a group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany have captured a spectacular snapshot of planetary formation around the young dwarf star PDS 70.

(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)

One of two major ancestral groups of Jewish individuals, comprised of those whose ancestors lived in Eastern Europe (Germany, Poland, Russia).

(Ashkenazi Jew, NCI Dictionary)

The project with PTScientists in Germany would use a 4G network to send high-definition information from rovers back to a lunar lander, which would then be able to communicate it back to Earth.

(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)

From Italy they visited Germany and France.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)