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Definition of: Teutonic
(t·ton′ik, ty-) adjective
1. Of or pertaining to the Teutons; especially, designating the blond peoples of northern Europe, formerly including the Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans, Norwegians, the Goths, Franks, Lombards, Vandals, etc.; now embracing also the English, Germans, Dutch, etc.
2. Of or pertaining to that subfamily of Indo-European languages now called Germanic, including Gothic, the Scandinavian languages, and all the High and Low German languages and dialects, among which are German, Dutch, Flemish, and English.
—noun The Germanic subfamily of languages.
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