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Teutonic

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Teu·ton·ic  (t-tnk, ty-)
adj.
1. Of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
2. Of or relating to the Germanic languages or their speakers.
n.
Germanic.
[Latin Teutnicus, from Teutn, Teutons; see Teuton.]
Teutonic [tew-tonn-ik]
Adjective
1. characteristic of or relating to the Germans
2. of the ancient Teutons
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Adj.1.Teutonic - of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages; "Teutonic peoples such as Germans and Scandinavians and British"; "Germanic mythology"
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The realm of France, it is well known, was divided betwixt the Norman and Teutonic race, who spoke the language in which the word Yes is pronounced as oui, and the inhabitants of the southern regions, whose speech bearing some affinity to the Italian, pronounced the same word oc.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
In the long lists by the Garonne on the landward side of the northern gate there had been many a strange combat, when the Teutonic knight, fresh from the conquest of the Prussian heathen, ran a course against the knight of Calatrava, hardened by continual struggle against the Moors, or cavaliers from Portugal broke a lance with Scandinavian warriors from the further shore of the great Northern Ocean.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Italy, like the rest of the Roman Empire, had been overrun and conquered in the fifth century by the barbarian Teutonic tribes, but the devastation had been less complete there than in the more northern lands, and there, even more, perhaps, than in France, the bulk of the people remained Latin in blood and in character.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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