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| n. (location) | 1. deutschland, federal republic of germany, frg, germany | a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990. |
| ~ oktoberfest | an autumn festival that involves merrymaking and drinking beer. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ buchenwald | a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany. |
| ~ dachau | a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany. |
| ~ panzer | an armored vehicle or tank. |
| ~ siegfried line | German fortifications facing the Maginot Line. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ german language, high german, german | the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ red army faction, raf | 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. |
| ~ common market, ec, eec, european community, european economic community, european union, eu, europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.; "he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union" |
| ~ nato, north atlantic treaty organization | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security. |
| ~ pietism | 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion. |
| ~ european country, european nation | any one of the countries occupying the European continent. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ chemnitz, karl-marx-stadt | a city in east central Germany; formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990; noted for textile manufacturing. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ frankfurt, frankfurt on the main, frankfort | a German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ 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.; "in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states" |
| ~ ruhr valley, ruhr | a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany. |
| ~ thuringia | a historical region of southern Germany. |
| ~ frisian islands | a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland. |
| ~ black forest, schwarzwald | a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany. |
| ~ bodensee, constance, lake constance | a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River. |
| ~ danau, danube, danube river | the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea.; "Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube" |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ neckar, neckar river | a river in Germany; rises in the Black Forest and flows north into the Rhine. |
| ~ oder, oder river | a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea. |
| ~ rhein, rhine river, rhine | a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea. |
| ~ ruhr, ruhr river | a tributary of the Rhine. |
| ~ saale, saale river | a river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River. |
| ~ weser, weser river | a river in northwestern Germany that flows northward to the North Sea near Bremerhaven. |
| ~ german | a person of German nationality. |
| ~ teuton | someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language. |
| ~ sorbian | a speaker of Sorbian. |
| ~ brownshirt | a member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms. |
| ~ margrave | a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess). |
| ~ one million million million, trillion | the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros.; "in England they call a quintillion a trillion" |
| ~ quadrillion | the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros.; "in England they call a septillion a quadrillion" |
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