WEST GERMANIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West Germanic mean? 

• WEST GERMANIC (noun)
  The noun WEST GERMANIC has 1 sense:

1. a branch of the Germanic languages

  Familiarity information: WEST GERMANIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEST GERMANIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A branch of the Germanic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

West Germanic; West Germanic language

Hypernyms ("West Germanic" is a kind of...):

Germanic; Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "West Germanic"):

English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)

German; German language; High German (the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic)

Low German; Plattdeutsch (a German dialect spoken in northern Germany)

Dutch (the West Germanic language of the Netherlands)

Frisian (a West Germanic language spoken in Friesland in the northwestern Netherlands; a near relative of English)

 Context examples 

An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States, and most of the Commonwealth countries.

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