outland Germans

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Calque of the German term Auslandsdeutsche.

Noun[edit]

outland Germans pl (plural only)

  1. Germans living abroad, in a foreign land.
    • 1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402:
      Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
    • 1936 December 7, LIFE, page 28:
      The little figures, he tells them, represent, according to color, 200 to 50,000 outland Germans each.
    • 2001 June 12, Mike Echo Mike, “Why do I fly !!!”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet):
      And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe []

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