| landgrave |
a medieval German count having jurisdiction over a large territory. [2 definitions] |
| Lebensraum |
space for living (German); additional land or territory desired by a nation for its political and economic expansion. |
| lied |
a German ballad or art song. |
| Low German |
a subbranch of Germanic, other than High German, that includes English, Dutch, Flemish, and Frisian. (Cf. High German.) [1/2 definitions] |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
German composer of European classical music (b.1770--d.1827). |
| margrave |
the military governor of a medieval German border province. |
| Martin Luther |
a German theologian and leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany (b.1483--d.1546). |
| measles |
any of several similar but milder diseases, such as German measles. [1/2 definitions] |
| Meistersinger |
a member of a medieval German guild organized for the cultivation of music and poetry. |
| mensch |
human being (German, Yiddish); a kind, reliable, compassionate person. |
| Middle High German |
the German language as it was spoken and written in central and southern Germany between 1100 A.D. and 1500 A.D. |
| Middle Low German |
the German language as it was spoken and written in northern Germany from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. |
| minnesinger |
a German lyric poet or troubadour of the late Middle Ages. |
| Nazi |
a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party which controlled Germany under Hitler from 1933 to 1945. [1/3 definitions] |
| New High German |
the High German language since the sixteenth century. |
| Old High German |
the German language as spoken and written in central and southern Germany between the eighth and twelfth centuries. |
| Old Low German |
the German language as spoken and written in northern Germany before the twelfth century. |
| Old Saxon |
a Low German dialect prior to the twelfth century. |
| Pennsylvania Dutch |
the descendants of German and Swiss immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [2/3 definitions] |
| Pietist |
a member of a German movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that stressed personal piety over orthodox devotion in seeking to change certain formalities within the Lutheran Church. |
| Plattdeutsch |
the informal German dialect spoken in northern Germany; Low German. |