teutonic
IPA: tutˈɔnɪk
Root Word: Teutonic
noun
- An ancient Germanic, or modern German, individual.
adjective
- Relating to the ancient Germanic people, the Teutons.
- Having qualities that are regarded as typical of German people.
- (archaic) Relating to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Examples of "teutonic" in Sentences
- This led to the Teutonic takeover of Danzig.
- Articles on the topic of the Teutonic Knights.
- The defeat of the Teutonic Order was resounding.
- Pomerelia as a part of the Teutonic Order state.
- Goofy Teutonic confidence unwarranted by history.
- The defeat of the Teutonic Knights was resounding.
- The Order adopted the rule of the Teutonic Knights.
- Is Kreeft's Kant piquant, or still teukantic .... er teutonic?
- First of all: Being German I strongly resent you using the term "teutonic".
- British patriotism leads logically to Teutonic supremacism and white racialism.
- The loaded references run from East Germany's answer to the Scouts to the teutonic symbol of the eagle.
- Finnish Spitz: The national dog of Finland, this dog sounds like what a teutonic dentist might say, "Finish spitz?"
- A series of management blunders and teutonic tectonic shifts in the technology landscape turned this once proud bastion of engineering into a historical footnote.
- During my life Prussia has ruthlessly and without necessity, almost without excuse, overrun every other Teutonic nation; Holland and Switzerland (if they be called teutonic) alone excepted.
- The chancellor's dilemma now is whether to accept a well-qualified but non-teutonic ECB head, such as Italy's Mario Draghi , or to foist a less-qualified German candidate on the rest of Europe.
- A favourite with teutonic tourists, it would play a mix of Eurotrash and oompah-pah-pah Schlager music as Jörg was filmed putting his hand up Bettina's dress and Henning necked sangria from a bucket.
- That cut little ice with lawmakers in Ms. Merkel's coalition, who are pressing the government to pick a candidate who, if not a German, can be sold to voters as a champion of teutonic financial values.
- Preceded by an epigram from Nietzsche "That which does not kill us makes us stronger", Milius's Conan had a certain fascistic grandeur; its blood-and-steel teutonic fantasy was a tale told by an ideologue, full of sound and Führer.
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