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swabian

British  
/ ˈsweɪbɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the German region of Swabia or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Swabia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Herta Müller was born in 1953 in the Banat region of western Romania to a German-speaking Swabian family.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

According to Dutkiewicz, the Swabian Jura is just one of several key areas where such symbols appear.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026

The 111th Regiment recruited men in the Baden region of the Swabian Alps, and nine soldiers have now been identified who died on 4 and 5 May 1917.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2021

This analogy between households and governments makes mainstream economists splutter with irritation; as Stiglitz observes, when the Swabian housewife reduces her spending, her husband doesn’t lose his job.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

Then said the Swabian, "Let us now take hand And swear to follow evermore this quest Till death or life have set our hearts at rest."

From A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by Morris, William

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