teutophone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
A speaker of the German language.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Teutophone.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Teutophone.
Example Sentences
- "Although numerous futuristic details are evoked—blepophones, nuclear hang-lines, portable artificial lungs for cancer victims, the transformation of the map of Europe into “Teutophone” and “Francophone” states—Burgess is at pains to keep the world recognizable."
- "In the case of Germany, the idea of the Teutophone Volk existed prior to the unified German nation-state (which did not, and will not in the foreseeable future, encompass all of the German-speaking peoples)."
- "> So if you want to compare hispanics to barbarians, you should really compare > them to the Romans. The Romans were the real barbarians of their time, > whereas the Germanic tribes were more civilized. Your "Teutophone" inclination notwithstanding, I'm afraid nobody would agree with you, save Christians and Jewish nationalists. =) The fact is that Germans (and other barbarians, might I add) immigrated to Rome, not the other way around. Rome's fall in the West is rightly considered the beginning of The Dark Ages."
- "Husserl’s stated reasons for accepting it were its familiarity, particularly in Teutophone and foreign-language works of psychology, and its brevity: Husserl defined ‘act’ as a shorthand for the somewhat longer (but hardly cumbersome) phrase ‘intentional experience’. […] Exploring the import of Erlebnis for Teutophone philosophy prior to or after Husserl, the phenomenological tradition particularly, or even Husserl’s own later work, would involve more significant a digression from the present task than I can afford."
- "The other main charm-type represented in the Tartu archive is Three roses, a type that has its heartland in Teutophone Central Europe – German examples date from the 1500s onwards, and the type later appeared in the popular German book of charms, Romanusbüchlein."
- "A similar notion of a Teutophone sphere is historically central to German cultural and educational policy, but influence is seen from the German perspective more as using its power to create an interest and awareness of its political and cultural goals as a basis for dialogue."
Etymology
From Teuto- + -phone.