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- of, relating to, or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, and the Scandinavian languages日耳曼语族（属印欧语系, 包括英语、德语、荷兰语、弗里斯兰语和斯堪的纳维亚语）的; 与日耳曼语族有关的。
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- of, relating to, or denoting the peoples of ancient northern and western Europe speaking such languages（与）（古代欧洲西部和北部）操日耳曼语族语言的民族（有关）的。
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- having characteristics of or attributed to Germans or Germany有德国人（或德国）特点的; 属德国人（或德国）的：
she had an almost Germanic regard for order.
她像德国人那样守秩序。
mass noun
1- the Germanic languages collectively.总称日耳曼语族。参见
E ASTG ERMANIC,N ORTHG ERMANIC,W ESTG ERMANIC.
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- the unrecorded ancient language from which these developed, thought to have been spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 3rd millennium BC（无史料记载的）原始日耳曼语（据信公元前 3000年时分布于波罗的海沿岸）。亦称
P ROTO-G ERMANIC.
词源
mid 17th cent.: from Latin Germanicus, from Germanus （见G ERMAN）.