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Germantown

American  
[jur-muhn-taun] / ˈdʒɜr mənˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a NW section of Philadelphia, Pa.: American defeat by British 1777.

  2. a town in SW Tennessee.

  3. a town in SE Wisconsin.

  4. Informal. any U.S. city neighborhood heavily populated with persons of German descent.


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Max Moran, a 23-year-old across the Ohio state line in Germantown, Kentucky, who shares activism tips with Sharp and Baker in their Facebook messaging group, said he hasn’t used chatbots much for his research.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Also here are Anna and John Lane, a husband and wife, both of whom were at the Battle of Germantown in Pennsylvania.

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

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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