Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Thuringia or its people or culture.
- n. A member of an ancient tribe inhabiting central Germany until the sixth century A.D.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Thuringia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The dialect of German spoken in Thuringia.
- n. 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. Properly it is the district included between the Harz, the Thuringian Forest, and the rivers Werra and Saale; but it is often regarded as comprising the Saxon duchies, the principalities of Schwarzburg and Reuss, inclosed exclaves of other states, and adjoining parts of Prussia. Thuringia was a medieval landgraviate, and its later history is merged in that of Saxony.
- n. A native or an inhabitant of Thuringia.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to Thuringia or its people
- n. A native or inhabitant of Thuringia.
- n. A member of an ancient Germanic tribe inhabiting central Germany
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people.
Etymologies
- From Thuringia + -an. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To the Führer, the Thuringian hills, and the great works produced there, were “the embodiment of the German spirit.””
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Thuringian kingdom, where he played such a prominent role that the”
“* Radegund, Thuringian princess who founded a monastery at Poitiers died 587;”
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