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outland Germans en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of the German term Auslandsdeutsche.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) Germans living abroad, in a foreign land.
    • And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe […] 2001 June 12, Mike Echo Mike, “Why do I fly !!!”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet):
    • Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed. 1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402:
    • The little figures, he tells them, represent, according to color, 200 to 50,000 outland Germans each. 1936 December 7, LIFE, page 28:

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