TEUTONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Teutonic mean? 

• TEUTONIC (adjective)
  The adjective TEUTONIC has 1 sense:

1. of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages

  Familiarity information: TEUTONIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEUTONIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Germanic; Teutonic

Context example:

Germanic mythology

Pertainym:

Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)

 Context examples 

A white mantle fluttered behind him, upon the left side of which was marked the broad black cross picked out with silver which was the well-known badge of the Teutonic Order.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His face flushed with anger, and his brows knotted over his blue Teutonic eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hans Nelson, immigrant, Swede by birth and carpenter by occupation, had in him that Teutonic unrest that drives the race ever westward on its great adventure.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Lotty, with Teutonic phlegm, was calmly eating bread and currant wine, for the jelly was still in a hopelessly liquid state, while Mrs. Brooke, with her apron over her head, sat sobbing dismally.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Professor charged up and down the green aisles like a stout Teutonic knight, with a pole for a lance, leading on the boys, who made a hook and ladder company of themselves, and performed wonders in the way of ground and lofty tumbling.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On the other side were the veteran Captal de Buch and the brawny Olivier de Clisson, with the free companion Sir Perducas d'Albret, the valiant Lord of Mucident, and Sigismond von Altenstadt, of the Teutonic Order.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It chanced, however, that a knight of Poitou, Sir Gaston d'Estelle, was staying there on his way back from Lithuania, where he had served a term with the Teutonic knights under the land-master of the presbytery of Marienberg.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)