Teuton
Americannoun
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a member of a Germanic people or tribe first mentioned in the 4th century b.c. and supposed to have dwelt in Jutland.
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a native of Germany or a person of German origin.
adjective
noun
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a member of an ancient Germanic people from Jutland who migrated to S Gaul in the 2nd century bc : annihilated by a Roman army in 102 bc
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a member of any people speaking a Germanic language, esp a German
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Teuton
1720–30; < Latin Teutonī (plural) tribal name < Germanic
Example Sentences
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So, too, with Kurt Masur, the burly, bearded Teuton who could uplift the house when he made the New York Philharmonic soar.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2015
According to Jack Brickhouse, the DuMont Network got 5,000 letters and telegrams denouncing the Teuton Terror, as Schmidt was known.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2013
Grand Teuton According to the story, as ghastly as it is apparently untrue, Cologne, Germany, once hosted the martyrdom of 11,000 virgin handmaidens.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2012
His sister married the German Count Albert von Quadt, onetime Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy at Washington—; thus, on that score alone, De Martino was well known in the Teuton grand monde.
From Time Magazine Archive
In spite of the risk of a shell from the exasperated Teuton, he kept his vessel about half a mile from the torpedo-boat and awaited the inevitable ending.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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