outland Germans
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of the German term Auslandsdeutsche.
Noun
[edit]outland Germans pl (plural only)
- 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 […]