Germiston

American  

[jur-muh-stuhn] / ˈdʒɜr mə stən /

noun

1. a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.

---

Germiston British  

/ ˈdʒɜːmɪstən /

noun

1. a city in South Africa, southeast of Johannesburg: industrial centre, with the world's largest gold refinery, serving the Witwatersrand mines. Pop: 139 721 (2001)

---

Example Sentences

An ambulance rushed him to the Bertha Gxowa Hospital in nearby Germiston.

From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2023

Brenner was born in 1927 in Germiston, South Africa to poor immigrant parents.

From Nature • Apr. 10, 2019

Brenner, born in Germiston, South Africa, in 1927, spent much of his early career in the United Kingdom, earning his PhD from the University of Oxford.

From Scientific American • Apr. 8, 2019

Sydney Brenner was born Jan. 13, 1927, in Germiston, South Africa, to Jewish emigre parents from Eastern Europe.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2019

Toward the end of 1966 my father was temporarily laid off his job as a menial labourer for a white firm in Germiston, a white city an hour’s bus ride southeast of Johannesburg.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane