Germany meaning
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- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant]), is a federal parliamentary republic in western-central Europe.
- Various Germanic tribes have occupied northern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before 100 CE. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward.
- The rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation, which had been occupied by France, resulted in the unification of most of the German states in 1871 into the Prussian-dominated German Empire.


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- (geography) The Central European state formed by West Germany's 1990 absorption of East Germany, with its capital in Berlin.
- (geography, historical) The Central European state formed by Prussia in 1871 or its successor states, with their capitals in Berlin.
- (geography, historical) A nominal medieval kingdom in Central Europe forming a region of the Carolingian and Holy Roman empires, with various capitals; by extension, the Holy Roman Empire itself, the empire of the Austrian Habsburgs.
- (geography, chiefly historical) The nation of the German people, regardless of their political unification (see usage note).
- NC (geography, historical) West or East Germany or any other German state (see usage note); (in the plural) both, several, or all of these states, taken together.
- (geography) The Central European state formed by West Germany's 1990 absorption of East Germany, with its capital in Berlin.
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- It was a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.
- One of the most impressive pieces is a Renaissance gimmel ring made in Germany in 1631.
- The Brazilians are eating their hearts out over their defeat by Germany in the World Cup.
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- Germany [ …] rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. — Sir W. Hamilton.
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Definition of Germany in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary