Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Thuringia or its people or culture.
- noun A member of an ancient tribe inhabiting central Germany until the sixth century AD.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Thuringia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dialect of German spoken in Thuringia.
- noun 3. In geology, the upper third of the Permian system, which is typically developed in Thuringia, Germany. Same as
Zechstein . - Pertaining to Thuringia, a region in central Germany.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Thuringia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Thuringia or its people - noun A native or inhabitant of Thuringia.
- noun A member of an ancient Germanic tribe inhabiting central Germany
Etymologies
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Examples
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The plan, as Knigge outlined, was to take the lampshade to the offices of the Landeskriminalamt Thüringen, which he described as the Thuringian office of “the German FBI.”
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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The German Fan Fest beer garden, not to be confused with the German Saxony House, is operated by the Thuringian sports association and the German Olympic sports association.
National houses are party capitals at Vancouver Olympics 2010
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Again, Kultur, the very mention of which was said to make Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering remove the safety on his Browning pistol, appears to have been at work in the Thuringian hills.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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To the Führer, the Thuringian hills, and the great works produced there, were “the embodiment of the German spirit.”
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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It might not look it at first glance—the landscape flat as a board, and the magnolia trees growing wild in unkempt backyards—but Clarksdale has a lot in common with the Thuringian hills of Weimar, home to both the most brilliant flowering of German humanism and abject Nazi barbarism.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Edward of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, former King of Great Britain and current King of Hanover, spoke flawless German with a pure Thuringian accent his royal great-grandparents would have been proud of.
DBTL 29: Deutchland Unter Alles Johnny Pez 2009
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Edward of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, former King of Great Britain and current King of Hanover, spoke flawless German with a pure Thuringian accent his royal great-grandparents would have been proud of.
Archive 2009-08-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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Meanwhile, the king had received news that the Sorbs, Slavs who inhabit the lands lying between the Elbe and the Saale, had invaded the territories of their Thuringian and Saxon neighbours to plunder them and had ravaged some places, robbing and burning.
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The garment is surely an underdress; unfortunately, the only extant garment in this style, recovered in a Thuringian castle, got lost between its discovery in the 19th century and today.
Rollercoaster, anyone? a stitch in time 2009
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Thuringian kingdom, where he played such a prominent role that the
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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