noun

• A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Rhine, Elbe, and upper Danube Rivers in Central Europe, taken as a whole under its various governments.
• The principal state in this country, including
• (historical) A nominal medieval kingdom forming part of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires; (metonymically, now uncommon) the Holy Roman Empire in its entirety; (metonymically, obsolete) the Austrian Habsburg empire in its entirety.
• (historical) An empire formed by Prussia in 1871 with its capital at Berlin.
• (historical) A republic formed in 1918 with its capital at Berlin, inclusive of the Nazi regime who controlled it after 1933.
• (historical, uncommon) The socialist republic formed in 1949 with its capital at Berlin, more often known in English as East Germany.
• A country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany. Capital and largest city: Berlin.
• (countable, historical) The various states in this country either over time or during periods of disunity and division, sometimes (inexact) inclusive of the Holy Roman Empire and Austria-Hungary's other holdings.
• (uncommon) A male given name.
• (uncommon) A surname.
• A township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
• An unincorporated community in Clark County, Indiana, United States.
• An unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas, United States.