"Germanize" meaning in English

See Germanize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɝmənaɪz/ [General-American], /ˈdʒɜːmənaɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: Germanizes [present, singular, third-person], Germanizing [participle, present], Germanized [participle, past], Germanized [past]
Etymology: From German + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|German|ize}} German + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} Germanize (third-person singular simple present Germanizes, present participle Germanizing, simple past and past participle Germanized)
  1. (transitive) To give a German character to (something). Tags: transitive Categories (topical): German Categories (place): Germany
    Sense id: en-Germanize-en-verb-AOymI-ap Disambiguation of German: 47 53 Disambiguation of Germany: 47 53
  2. (intransitive) To adopt German customs or culture. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): German Categories (place): Germany
    Sense id: en-Germanize-en-verb-vuW09evi Disambiguation of German: 47 53 Disambiguation of Germany: 47 53 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Kyrgyz translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 25 75 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Kyrgyz translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 18 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Germanise [UK] Related terms: Germanization Translations (make more German): أَلْمَنَ (ʔalmana) (Arabic), germanizovat (Czech), poněmčovat (Czech), poněmčit (Czech), fortyske (Danish), germanisere (Danish), germanigi (Esperanto), saksalaistaa (Finnish), germaniser (French), eindeutschen (German), germanisieren (German), germanizzare (Italian), немістендіру (nemıstendıru) (Kazakh), немистештирүү (nemisteştirüü) (Kyrgyz), menjermankan (Malay), germanizować (Polish), niemczyć (Polish), zniemczać (Polish), germaniza (Romanian), germanizovať (Slovak), förtyska (Swedish), Almanlaştırmak (Turkish), Đức hóa (Vietnamese), Đức hoá (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'make more German': 47 53

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.