Definitions for germans
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1. Germans

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1. Germans

   Germans are the citizens or native-born people of Germany; or people of descent to the ethnic and ethnolinguistic group associated with the German language. This connection may be ethnic, historical, ancestral, cultural, legal or residential. The English term Germans has historically referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages. Legally, Germans are citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany. Of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, roughly 70 million consider themselves Germans. There are an additional 80 million people of German ancestry mainly in the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, South Africa, post-Soviet states, France, Australia, Chile and Italy. Thus, the total number of Germans worldwide lies between 66 and 160 million, depending on the criteria applied. Today, people from countries with a German-speaking majority such as Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, have developed their own national identity, and since the end of World War II, have not referred to themselves as "Germans" in a modern context.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'germans' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3824

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'germans' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4814

Anagrams for germans »

1. engrams

2. mangers

How to pronounce germans?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of germans in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of germans in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of germans in a Sentence

1. Boris Johnson:

   The EU would be a lobster ... because the EU, by the very way it works, encourages its participating members to order the lobster at the joint meal because they know that the bill is going to be settled by everybody else - normally by the Germans.

2. Kipchoge Keino:

   Kenya has complied with every recommendation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and we are in the process of being declared compliant to its code, it is wrong for Germans to call for Kenya to be barred from Rio when we have offered its athletes training facilities in Kenya. To make it worse, some agents suspected to be encouraging doping among Kenyan athletes are Germans.

3. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

   I'm happy that people hear about the Holocaust. I don't care how they know. Through Anne, lots of people learn about what the Germans did to the Jewish people.

4. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized antisemitism.

5. Roderich Kiesewetter:

   Germany wanted this too, but we didn't dare say so for fear of others complaining about 'you rich Germans'.

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