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germania

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for germania.

Editorial note

The society Tacitus describes in the Germania in 98 is one constantly at war.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A personification of Germany or Germans as a whole.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of germania gathered in one view.

noun

A personification of Germany or Germans as a whole.

noun

A locality in the Shire of Northern Grampians, central western Victoria, Australia.

noun

(humorous, sometimes offensive) Germany.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for germania.

noun

A personification of Germany or Germans as a whole.

noun

A locality in the Shire of Northern Grampians, central western Victoria, Australia.

noun

(humorous, sometimes offensive) Germany.

noun

(historical) An ancient Roman term for a cultural region describing the lands in Central Europe inhabited by Germanic peoples.

Example sentences

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The society Tacitus describes in the Germania in 98 is one constantly at war.

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The romans called the area Germania after the germani that lived there.

3

I guess it depends how strictly you define the concepts - couldn't you argue that Germania extends back to Roman times?

4

In Florence I've seen an old map from around 1400 that had Germania in it.

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Same was true in Germania when Rome invaded it.

6

At some point the church prevailed in Germania too.

7

I'll admit that hundreds of years ago Germany or Germania meant something different from modern-day Deutschland, but I fail to see how that's relevant.

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Leaving aside me recognising singletrack all over the place, it took me a good twenty minutes of the film to understand that it was meant to be Germania and not Britain.

9

I am from Deutschland, but most people on the world call it either by a too general term Germania - and nobody in Denmark, Austria or the Netherlands is offended - or the too specific term Allemannia - and nobody in Switzerland is offended.

10

If the indigenous people of Germania advocating for no labor migration are ok with dying in their own excrement, because there are no nurses, I guess that would be one way to solve the problem.

11

I read Christopher Krebs' _A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich_ and it traces a different lineage in the same process- the process of turning someone who, say, lived in Mainz and thought of themselves as Hessian in 1800, into the person who lived in the same building in 1900 and thought of themselves as German.

Quote examples

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Romans referred to the region where they came into contact with villages across the Rhine as "Germania."

2

The parent comment already mentions Romans, so you can't count the various Roman tribes collectively known as Germania under "Germany".

3

He became known outside the scientific community due to his book "Finis Germania" (which I haven't read).

4

Does "German" refer to the area the Romans called Germania?

Proper noun examples

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And Roman law at the time called for execution to punish murder, which did not go over well in Germania.

2

Germania was a poor province, when Rome tried taxing it, they got very little.

3

Why have they been found all over Gallia, Germania, and Britannia, but not Italia, Hispania, or the Oriens?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use germania in a sentence?

The society Tacitus describes in the Germania in 98 is one constantly at war.

What does germania mean?

A personification of Germany or Germans as a whole.

What part of speech is germania?

germania is commonly used as noun.