Germanism
nounEtymology From German + -ism.
1
Rhetoric A word or idiom of the German language (that has been borrowed by another language).
- He employs the Lithuanian Yiddish idiom with some Germanisms.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 446:
2
Usually The culture and customs of the Germanic people (or tribes).
- Synonyms
- Teutonism