Germany
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- (UK) IPA: /ˈdʒɜː.mə.nɪ/, SAMPA: /"dZ3:m@nI/
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- (US) IPA: /ˈdʒɝ.mə.ni/, SAMPA: /"dZ3`m@ni/
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Germany (countable and uncountable; plural Germanies or Germanys)
- (uncountable) Country in Central Europe. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland).
- (countable; hist. 1949-1990) Either of the German states, FRG and GDR. The two Germanies exchanged permanent representatives in 1974.
- (countable; hist. pre-1871) Any of the German states. Melton’s useful new book traces the explosion of public institutions in eighteenth-century England, France and the Germanies.
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Germany