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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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
She was wounded at Germantown and received a pension from Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
I sat next to Allen and Stephanie, a couple from the Memphis suburb of Germantown.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2025
Monday when officers with the Germantown Police Department responded to a call of a person acting “erratically” in Kennedy Middle School’s parking lot, the Wisconsin Department of Justice said in a statement.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023
Because no coaches were running north of Baltimore, the president and his secretary of state were forced to hire—at their own expense, Jefferson grumped—a carriage to take them 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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