Germantown
Americannoun
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a NW section of Philadelphia, Pa.: American defeat by British 1777.
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a town in SW Tennessee.
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a town in SE Wisconsin.
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Informal. any U.S. city neighborhood heavily populated with persons of German descent.
Example Sentences
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Rollins and Pearson’s Tribeca apartment was six blocks from the towers and, after evacuating, they moved full-time to their house in Germantown, N.Y.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
The 35-year-old in Germantown, Md., wanted a more aggressive alarm clock after sleeping through an important meeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
I sat next to Allen and Stephanie, a couple from the Memphis suburb of Germantown.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
The process that led to Stroud’s ouster began in April 2003, when she told her congregation, the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, about her same-sex relationship.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
In the end, Jefferson estimated that it cost him nearly eighty dollars just to get to Germantown.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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