Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Low German: used especially with reference to language. See II.
- noun The Low German language, in a restricted sense; the popular speech of northern Germany, possessing a considerable literature. See
Low German , under German, n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under
german .
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- proper noun
Low German
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a German dialect spoken in northern Germany
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Anyway the man explained they are Mennonites, they speak a language called Plattdeutsch, which is a dialect of German, they work as farmers and live apart from the general Paraguayan community in a colony, in this particular colony, there are 5000 of them, they have their own schools and hospitals, basically a country within a country.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dijkstra is Dutch, actually, although Plautdeutsch, also called Plattdeutsch, was spoken in the lowland ares of Germany north of Holland.)
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dijkstra is Dutch, actually, although Plautdeutsch, also called Plattdeutsch, was spoken in the lowland ares of Germany north of Holland.)
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Kids play underfoot while the grownups deal, in Polish, Russian, north-Baltic, Plattdeutsch.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Folks have been teaching him dialects, Plattdeutsch for the zone the British plan to occupy, Thur-ingian if the Russians happen not to drive as far as Nordhausen, where die central rocket works is located.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Berlinese, whose vernacular is strongly tinged with _Plattdeutsch_ forms from the lower Elbe.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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America, the Modern Greek or Romaic, Lowland Scotch, and Plattdeutsch, the very frequent employment of diminutives has come to be a marked characteristic of the common speech of the people.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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The High German now spoken in northern Germany is not of great age, but is due to the spread of standardized German, based on Upper Saxon, a High German dialect, at the expense of Plattdeutsch.
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You can talk Plattdeutsch something grand, as long as you keep the verbs and nouns in American.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Aye, something of the sort, the servant replied in Plattdeutsch, and later I learned that this dialect had been in full swing here, as well as the Frisian, for over a hundred years; the dikemaster and the overseers and the other landholders!
Paras. 1–99 1917
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