Indian vs Germany - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
(obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 10:
(dated) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
(North America) Of foods: made with Indian corn or maize.
(chess) Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.
A person from India.
A member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).
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(UK, colloquial) A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant.
(geography) The Central European state formed by West Germany's 1990 absorption of East Germany, with its capital in Berlin.
* 2014 Sept. 25 , Michael Heise, "
(geography, historical) The Central European state formed by Prussia in 1871 or its successor states, with their capitals in Berlin.
* 1996', Paul Bookbinder, ''Weimar '''Germany : the republic of the reasonable (ISBN 0719042879), page 90
(geography, historical) A nominal medieval kingdom in Central Europe forming a region of the Carolingian and Holy Roman empires, with various capitals; by extension, the Holy Roman Empire itself, the empire of the Austrian Habsburgs.
* 17th c. , A Military History of Germany; and of England. From the Year 1631 to the Year 1648. Being the Memoirs of an English Gentleman, who served in the army of Gustavus Adolphus; and afterwards in the Royal Army of King Charles I (1759),
*:There had been a long bloody war in the empire of Germany for twelve years, between the Emperor, the Duke of Bavaria, the King of Spain, and the Popi?h]] Princes and Electors, on the one side; and the of [[Austria, Au?tria, it was thought that all parties were willing to make peace.
* 1790 , Thomas B. Clarke, A Statistical View of Germany, in respect to the Imperial and Territorial Constitutions, Forms of Government, Legislation, Administration of Justice, and Ecclesiastical State ,
(geography, chiefly, historical) The nation of the German people, regardless of their political unification (see usage note ).
* 1775 , Charles Burney, The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces ,
* 1776 , Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ,
* 1797 , "
(countable, geography, historical) West or East Germany or any other German state (see usage note ); (in the plural) both, several, or all of these states, taken together.
*1872 , History of English Literature'', John Fiske's abridgment of H. van Laun's translation of Hippolyte Taine's ''Histoire de la littérature anglaise (1864), page 26:
* 2007 , William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University , ISBN 0226109224, page 84:
* 2010 , Ilan Stavans, Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years , ISBN 0312240333:
*2010 Sept. 29 , Klaus Wiegrefe, "
As a noun indian
is indian, american indian (a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the americas).As a proper noun germany is
(geography) the central european state formed by west germany's 1990 absorption of east germany, with its capital in berlin.indian
English
Adjective
(-)- The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre .
- Indian''' bread; '''Indian meal
Synonyms
* (of or or relating to India or its people) (l), (l) * (of or related to indigenous peoples of the Americas) (l), (l), (l) (chiefly Canadian), (l)Derived terms
* Amerindian (American Indian) * Hindian (Asian Indian) * Indian clover * Indian elephant * Indian file * Indian giving * Indian Ocean * Indian red * Indian sign * Indian style * Indian sunburn * Indian tea * too many chiefs and not enough Indians *Noun
(en noun)- We're going out tonight for an Indian .
Synonyms
* (person from India) Asian Indian * (indigenous person of the Americas) Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian * (indigenous person of the Americas) Native Canadian, First Nations person * See alsoStatistics
* ----germany
English
Proper noun
The Myth of the Stupid German Investor" in the Wall Street Journal .
- Germans save a lot, produce plenty and spend little. The result is a massive external surplus. Last year, Germany ’s current account surplus stood at almost 200 billion ($260 billion), the world's largest.
- Severing's belief that trade union workers were the most progressive and democratic element in Germany holds up well under investigation.
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- When the race of Charlemagne cea?ed]] to govern in Germany , the princes and of that union, or of the empire; but in all other [[respect, re?pects they are independent and free.
volume II, page 3:
- I had frequently been told, that the Bohemians were the mo?t]] [[musical, mu?ical people of Germany , or, perhaps, of all Europe...
volume I, page 218:
- Ancient Germany', excluding from its independent limits the province we?tward]] of the Rhine, which had [[resemblance, re?emblance.
Mentz" in the Encyclopædia Britannica , 3rd ed.:
- There are few cities in Germany be?ides]] Vienna which contain of 100,000 guilders, or 10,000[[pounds, l. a-year.
- While the Germans of Gaul, Italy, and Spain became Romans, the Saxons retained their language, their genius, and manners, and created in Britain a Germany outside of Germany.
- The differences between England and the Germanies sprang from the absence or presence of ministerial interventions.
- In a Renault 14, they drove from one Germany to the other...
Germany's Unlikely Diplomatic Triumph" in Spiegel Online :
- It is the fall of 1989, and two time zones farther to the west, thousands of people march through downtown Leipzig every Monday, while more than 6,000 East German citizens are camped out in the embassies of West Germany in Prague and Warsaw, hoping to be allowed to emigrate. The images have circled the globe, and it is clear to leaders Thatcher and Gorbachev that the two Germanys are on the verge of radical change.
