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Teuton

NOUN
  1. someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language
  2. a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans

How To Use Teuton In A Sentence

  • The causes which make dolente a solemn word to the Italian ear, and dolent a queer word to the English ear, are causes which have been slowly operating ever since the Italian and the Teuton parted company on their way from The Unseen World and Other Essays
  • One unpleasant aspect of the commercial invasion of Italy by the Teuton was his liking to live there, and consequently the amount of real estate which he was collecting on the Latin peninsula -- so much that the lovely environs of Naples were fast becoming a German principality! The World Decision
  • Saying so, he commanded the kings of the Teutones to be brought out. as they were, in chains; for they were taken by the Sequani among the Alps, before they could make their escape. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • Teuton" or the "Slav" he will give his last farthing and shed his heart's blood. The New World of Islam
  • They banqueted in the hall where in medieval times the Teutonic Knights had feasted. Emancipation
  • The attacks of the Germanic Cimbri and Teutones were still fresh in memory, northern Gaul had not yet been conquered by Caesar - all the bad things always came over the Alps. HH Com 476
  • BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic _bricke_, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French _brique_, originally a "broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic _brikan_, to break), a kind of artificial stone generally made of burnt clay, and largely used as a building material. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • It will be seen, in fine, that in the main Obermüller does not differ from accepted theories in German ethnology, which have long carefully dissevered the Celts from the Teutons, and assigned to each tribe with approximate accuracy its earliest fixed abode in Europe. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
  • Teutonic Knights' Major Chapter House is a place where the finest German Christian warriors reside, training and devoting themselves to the order's pursuits.
  • The woman emitted a Teutonic sigh.
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